Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Multithreaded core dumps | Date | Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:12:49 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > The 2.4-ac tree supports dumping core.$pid for the threads that actually > > died > > ... and these dumps are not reliable. Living thread may modify the > contents of dump as it's being written out. I.e. you are getting > false alarms - inconsistent data that was never there.
That is mathematically insoluble. Think about an SMP system, you cannot stop the other thread in instantaneously small time
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