Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:24:32 -0400 | From | I Lee Hetherington <> | Subject | Re: Anyone working on multi-threaded core files for 2.4 ? |
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Alexander Viro wrote:
> How about preventing the rest of threads from doing mmap()/munmap()/etc. > while the dump is taken? How about thread A coredumping, half of the image > being already written and thread B (nowhere near the kernel mode, mind > you) changing the data both in the area that is already dumped and area > the still isn't? After that you can look at the dump and notice absolutely > corrupted data structures - very effective in misdirecting your attempts > to figure out what went wrong.
Couldn't all threads be stopped before coredumping begins?
--Lee Hetherington
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