+#if !USE_MPROTECT_SNAPSHOT
+/** @statics
+* These variables are necessary because the stack is shared region and
+* there exists a race between all processes executing the same function.
+* To avoid the problem above, we require variables allocated in 'safe' regions.
+* The bug was actually observed with the forkID, these variables below are
+* used to indicate the various contexts to which to switch to.
+*
+* @savedSnapshotContext: contains the point to which takesnapshot() call should switch to.
+* @savedUserSnapshotContext: contains the point to which the process whose snapshotid is equal to the rollbackid should switch to
+* @snapshotid: it is a running counter for the various forked processes snapshotid. it is incremented and set in a persistently shared record
+*/
+static ucontext_t savedSnapshotContext;
+static ucontext_t savedUserSnapshotContext;
+static snapshot_id snapshotid = 0;
+
+#else /* USE_MPROTECT_SNAPSHOT */