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Managing an application software partition

US8185870B2 · kind B2 · utility

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23Claims

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Dean J. Burdick · Austin, US
David J. Craft · Hereford, US
Eric P. Fried · Austin, US
Vinit Jain · Austin, US
Lance W. Russell · Rosanky, US
Marc J. Stephenson · Austin, US

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 29, 2006
Grant date	May 22, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 9, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F9/485
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing a software partition in logical partitioned data processing system. A virtual root process is created for the software partition, wherein the virtual root process functions as a root process for the software partition. The set of child processes is re-parented to the virtual root process in response to termination of a process having a set of child processes.

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