Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Feb 2001 22:15:05 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Core dumps for threads |
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On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 09:57:44PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
The I/O to dump the core would race other changes on the mm. The right fix is probably to copy the mm (as fork does) then dump the copy.
Stupid question... but since all threads see the same memory space as each other; can we not lock the entire vma for the process whilst it's being written out?
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