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Re:Unfork() by mmoez on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:07AM (#21397247)
> How clean is it?

It's as clean as any official Win32 API which uses their privilege system to restrict/allow accesses to each and any bit of information on the process state and/or memory.

> Can you simply exec the result?

This is possible using CreateThread() [1] which creates a remote thread inside another process execution context.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processth...

> Glibc used to have unexec()

My understanding is that unexec() was more about making a snapshot of the whole process state to an executable on disk.

Re:Unfork() by hackworks on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:34PM (#21400282)
That is my understanding too. Solaris had a flag for dldump (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-0627/6j9vhfmop/inde...). Emacs moved to a portable dumper (maybe inspired from XEmacs)