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    SubjectRe: [RFC] proc, coredump: add CoreDumping flag to /proc/pid/status
    On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 12:17:15PM +0100, Roman Gushchin wrote:
    > Right now there is no convenient way to check if a process is being
    > coredumped at the moment.
    >
    > It might be necessary to recognize such state to prevent killing
    > the process and getting a broken coredump.
    > Writing a large core might take significant time, and the process
    > is unresponsive during it, so it might be killed by timeout,
    > if another process is monitoring and killing/restarting
    > hanging tasks.
    >
    > 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.
    >

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