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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel 2.4.19 & 2.5.38 - coredump sysctl
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 04:27:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> writes:
> > 
> > > True, but it's all more code and I don't believe that it adds
> > > much value.  It means that people need to run off and find
> > 
> > One useful feature of it would be that you can get core dumps for
> > each thread by including the pid (or tid later with newer threading libraries)
> > Currently threads when core dumping overwrite each others cores so you lose
> > the registers of all but one.
> 
> Oh sure, I agree that it's a useful feature.  But I don't agree that
> we need to allow users to specify how the final filename is pasted
> together.  Just give them host-uid-gid-comm.core.  ie: everything.

That wouldn't support the Dr.Watson thing.

-Andi
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