| Subject | Re: [PATCH] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern | From | Scott James Remnant <> | Date | Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:13:02 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 13:28 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> 2) Allow for the kernel to wait for a core_pattern process to complete. One of > the things core_pattern processes might do is interrogate the status of a > crashing process via its /proc/pid directory. To ensure that that directory is > not removed prematurely, we wait for the process to exit prior to cleaning it > up. > Would this mean that the kernel would wait for the pattern process to complete before PANIC in the case of init core dumping?
I'd find that useful :-)
Scott -- Scott James Remnant scott@canonical.com [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] |