Re: PID of multi-threaded core's file name is wrong in 2.5.59

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
28 Jan 2003 12:27:03 -0500


On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:45, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> I think this isn't an issue; multi-threaded core dumps are done by
> the core_waiter synchronization, so all other threads will have exited
> before the first thread to crash actually writes out its core.

I think the problem is the filenames need to not overwrite each other -
not actual synchronization in the kernel (which, as you point out, is
correct).

If we name the coredumps based on ->tgid, then all threads will dump to
the same file. If we use ->pid, each thread will use its unique PID as
its filename.

Robert Love

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