Re: [RFC] proc, coredump: add CoreDumping flag to /proc/pid/status

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 03:21:59PM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 01:15:26AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > To provide an ability to detect if a process is in the state of
> > > being coreduped, we can expose a boolean CoreDumping flag
> > > in /proc/pid/status.
> > 
> > Or add "State: C" ?
> 
> A program in such state can also sleep and run, so it's not
> a state in terms of process states.

Well, maybe something will break from seeing unknown process state.

Regardless, symlink /proc/$PID/coredump pointing to either "0" or "1"
is faster than open+read+parse+close.