OK I love this, and not just because of the calls to system(nc) :-) Your code made me think, maybe I'm tying myself into knots... But my thing is making hundre

OK I love this, and not just because of the calls to system(nc) :-) Your code made me think, maybe I'm tying myself into knots... But my thing is making hundred thousands of checkpoints so I'd have to have as many forks as savespoints. No way to coalesce parents, maybe reparenting could work there...