> > I am inclined to believe that that is the case. Unfortunately, I have no
> > advice to give - but I am writing because I think that it would be neat if
> > you have the time and the inclination for you to document your findings as
> > you progress and put them on the web.
>
> 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.
Think of a linked list protected by a mutex. Half of its entries are
already written out. Surviving thread removes an element. It updates
the in-core structures correctly. The problem being, in the dump
we get part of memory from before that change and part - after. If
you notice that when you are looking at the dump - welcome to a nice
chase after the bug that never existed.
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