Subject: MOO-backups

From: "Wayne E. Bouchard" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1993 16:57:40 -0700

Probably one of the biggest reasons the MOO DOES fork() to do its backups
is so that the MOO is competely isolated form i/o. What happens, for
example, if an object is recycled while that object is being written
in thecheckpoint? THeres also the task queue to consider. There are also
quirky things going on with the task queue as well. In its present state,
(1.7.0) I prefer fork() to active backups.

-Wayne/Sadric@LambdaMOO
  MOO-Cows FAQ author