Re: [PATCH 0/3] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer whenusing pipes in core_pattern (v8)

From: Neil Horman
Date: Tue Jul 07 2009 - 12:13:54 EST


Reposting unchanged with oleg cc'd for him to ack

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 06:44:47AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
>
> Patch V8, converting fatal_signal_pending to signal_pending
>
>
> This patcset provides improvements to the core_pattern infrastructure:
>
> 1) Make detection of recurseive core dumps more robust and accurate
>
> 2) Provide a sysctl to limit the number of parallel coredumps in flight when
> using pipes
>
> 3) Allows for the kernel to wait for the completion of user space core dump
> processing
>
> Neil
>
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