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4.2 Transparency to applications

We make no claim that operation shipping can be used transparently with all non-interactive applications. For example, we anticipate that operation shipping probably cannot be used with the -j <n> mode of GNU Make, which runs n jobs in parallel. Fortunately, so far all nine selected applications can be used transparently with operation shipping. Three of them exhibit non-repeating side effects, but these side effects can be compensated by our handling techniques.



Copyright 1999 by Y.W. Lee, K.S. Leung, and M. Satyanarayanan