Re: Linux 2.5 / 2.6 TODO (preliminary)

From: Warren Young (tangent@cyberport.com)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 10:19:22 EST

"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
>
> > UnixWare has a sometimes-useful feature: core dumps are numbered with
> > the PID of the dead process. (core.419, core.422, core.435...)
>
> The kernel doesn't name core-dumps. Whatever process handles the signal
> produces the core-dump. It certainly has the PID available.

Then explain to me what the function dump_write() does in
linux/fs/binfmt_elf.c. 

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