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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Pl... by tperry98 on Thursday March 10, 2016 @01:50PM (#11261196)
Live Recorder: http://www.undo-software.com

Record a process on Linux and save an exact copy of the program's execution; replay it later on a different machine, and step backwards and forwards through the recording at the source level to figure out where it went wrong.

There are a few main things that make this possible:

- lightweight copy-on-write process snapshots

- re-executing (rather than recording) code we know to be deterministic

- a lot of time spent on handling corner cases to create a mature product

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Pl... by ClickQuestion on Thursday March 10, 2016 @05:11PM (#11262875)
This is incredibly cool. I saw http://rr-project.org/ on here recently.

Am I to understand this is basically the same, except you've added the ability to follow along in source code? That sounds very very cool.

What capabilities do you have if no source is available?

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Pl... by tperry98 on Sunday March 13, 2016 @06:43PM (#11279768)
Just noticed your message, sorry for the delay. If you send a quick email to support at undo-software dot com we'll be happy to answer your questions.
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