Process Snapshotting
Purpose
Process snapshotting enables you to capture process state, in part or whole. It is similar to the Tool Help API, but with one important advantage: it can efficiently capture the virtual address contents of a process using the Windows internal POSIX fork clone capability. The process snapshot can be dumped into a file using the MiniDumpWriteDump function. For more information, see Generate Dump File from a Process Snapshot.
Developer audience
Process Snapshotting is designed for use by C/C++ developers.
Run-time requirements
Process Snapshotting is included in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 operating systems.
In this section
Topic | Description |
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Overview of Process Snapshotting |
General information about Process Snapshotting. |
Generate Dump File from a Process Snapshot |
You can generate a process snapshot dump file. |
Process Snapshotting Reference |
Reference information for the Process Snapshotting API. |