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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2004
Jose Renato Santos, San Jose, CA (US);
Dinesh Kumar Subhraveti, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Yoshio Frank Turner, Redwood City, CA (US);
Gopalakrishnan Janakiraman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David E. Lowell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jose Renato Santos, San Jose, CA (US);
Dinesh Kumar Subhraveti, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Yoshio Frank Turner, Redwood City, CA (US);
Gopalakrishnan Janakiraman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David E. Lowell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of checkpointing and restarting processes that share a file that is open begins with a step of assigning a priority to one of the processes that share the file. This identifies a priority process. The method concludes with a step of reopening the file when restoring the priority process.