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?
--cw
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