On Thu, 3 May 2001, Don Dugger wrote:
> The attached patch allows core dumps from thread processes in the 2.4.4
> kernel. This patch is the same as the last one I sent out except it fixes
> the same bug that `kernel/fork.c' had with duplicate info in the `mm'
> structure, plus this patch has had more extensive testing.
AFAIK Linux can't dump the threads to the same file as others but doing
it to different files looks a bit scary. How the system behaves when you
dump a heavy threaded app with a decent VM [i.e just think about a
bloatware instead of malicious code]? How will the developer know which
thread caused the fault? I've found dumping just the faulting thread is
enough about 100% of the cases especially because [on SMP] others can
run on and the dump is much more close to "garbage" then usuful info
from a debug point of view.
Szaka
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