Re: /proc/<pid>/stat read hang with Mozilla in 2.4.14

[Erland Lewin]

I wrote of hangs reading various /proc/<pid>/files after a Mozilla
crash.

Manfred Spraul replied:
> 
> Could you check if mozilla was in the middle of a coredump? There is a
> deadlock in the coredump handler, perhaps mozilla triggered it.
> Could you search for a recent coredump file?
> 

Yes, I found a matching core dump (core.8770).
  Is there any other information I can help with?
  What is the status of the deadlock problem - has it been fixed in the
latest kernel?

> Or check if PF_DUMPCORE is set in tsk->flags. (Probably difficult
> without access to /proc/n/stat)

/Erland