World Persistence, flat files v/s DB v/s ??

[s001gmu at nova.wright.edu]

On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Matt Chatterley wrote:

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> I was briefly toying with the idea of rigging a system so that users were
> not disconnected during reboots. Unsure on this currently.

you may want to look at:

  cshadow.net 4000

It's a diku-hack-POS, (I can say that as I worked on the code it's based
on... ick), but they rigged a 'soft-boot' system, where they reboot w/o
dropping ppl off.  Pretty slick.  It does incure a slight delay whilst
storing all the info, etc, but it works.  It takes advantage of Unix
system calls... some creative work with a fork and exec as I understand
it.


-Greg