Re: core-dump support exists now

Linus Torvalds (Linus.Torvalds@cs.Helsinki.FI)
Wed, 11 Oct 1995 07:10:06 +0200


David Mosberger-Tang: "core-dump support exists now" (Oct 10, 8:01):
>
> PS: I have not yet tried to build a 1.3.33 kernel.

Don't even try yet. The driver initialization stuff in 1.3.33 is not
stable, and SCSI drivers certainly have some problems. The 1.3.33
release was made just to get the source out to some driver developers to
get the new initialization up and running.

On the alpha, I haven't yet written the "kernel_thread()" function to
start a new kernel thread. That will be the real interface to "fork()"
from within the kernel, and it makes it possible to do real kernel
threads for things like "bdflush" etc. But as I was in a hurry to get
the driver changes out, I never got around to write the (small and
pretty trivial) kernel_thread() function for alpha.

Linus