Re: Anyone working on multi-threaded core files for 2.4 ?

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 06:37:53 EST


On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 12:22:28PM +0100, James Cownie wrote:
>
> Please let me know (by mail) otherwise I may take a look, since it
> doesn't appear to be a _huge_ problem any longer, and it's one of the
> things users keep bitching at us about when using our debugger :-(

The synchronization on dump between the processes sharing a VM is quite nasty
actually. There were patches for it in the past, but they usually got that
wrong. Linux has no way currently to stop them atomically.

-Andi
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