Re: [PATCH 4/4] coredump: documentation for proc entry

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Mar 02 2007 - 04:36:24 EST


Hi!

> +If you don't want to dump all shared memory segments attached to pid 1234,
> +write 0 to the process's proc file.
> +
> + $ echo 1 > /proc/1234/coredump_omit_anonymous_shared

Write 0?

> +When a new process is created, the process inherits the flag status from its
> +parent. It is useful to set the flag before the program runs.
> +For example:
> +
> + $ echo 1 > /proc/self/coredump_omit_anonymous_shared
> + $ ./some_program
> +

Notice that this docs is wrong. You have to retry until kernel stops
producing spurious errors.
Pavel

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