Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:37:53 +0200 | From | "Andi Kleen" <> | Subject | Re: Anyone working on multi-threaded core files for 2.4 ? |
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 12:22:28PM +0100, James Cownie wrote: > > Please let me know (by mail) otherwise I may take a look, since it > doesn't appear to be a _huge_ problem any longer, and it's one of the > things users keep bitching at us about when using our debugger :-(
The synchronization on dump between the processes sharing a VM is quite nasty actually. There were patches for it in the past, but they usually got that wrong. Linux has no way currently to stop them atomically.
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