core files from multithreaded apps (fwd)
SethMeister G. (consp05@binghamton.edu)
Tue, 29 Apr 1997 22:49:58 -0400 (EDT)
Forwarded message:
>
> I'm curious if there's been any work so far on affecting changes to the elf
> binary format and/or the kernel sources (for binfmt_elf.c) to allow
> multithreaded apps to generate a readable single corefile.
>
> I've been working on this alone, so far, but am interested to see/hear of
> other people working on this.
>
Is this really necessary? I mean, if you are using a thread library that
gdb knows how to handle, why can't it glean the important information
from the core image as is (but I am ASSuME ing a lot of stuff that I
don't know).
-S