Re: PID of multi-threaded core's file name is wrong in 2.5.59

From: Daniel Jacobowitz (dan@debian.org)
Date: Tue Jan 28 2003 - 12:49:53 EST


On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:42:52PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 12:39, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> > That wasn't my point. All of the other threads have already terminated
> > without dumping core at tis point; I don't think it's possible for two
> > threads of a CLONE_THREAD application to both dump core. See
> > fs/exec.c:coredump_wait.
> >
> > Also, once one thread gets into do_coredump it clears mm->dumpable;
> > nothing else will dump core from that MM anyway.
>
> Are you telling me only one thread per thread group can coredump,
> period? So if two of them segfault (say concurrently on two different
> processors) only one will win the race to dump and the others will
> simply exit?

That's right. The dump will include all the threads anyway, now.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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