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Date:   Sat, 17 Aug 2019 21:48:41 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To:     Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.2 57/59] coredump: split pipe command
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On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 09:41:46AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
>On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 17:33 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>
>> From: Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 315c69261dd3fa12dbc830d4fa00d1fad98d3b03 ]
>
>The patch changes the behaviour of the interface between the Linux
>kernel and userspace core dump handlers. The previous behaviour was
>unlikely to be depended on by any core dump handler but it is still a
>behaviour change, so I think it would be best to keep it out of the
>stable branches and would prefer to have folks encounter the change as
>Linux distros etc roll out 5.3 and later into their dev releases.
>
>We discussed this on #kernelnewbies a while ago and gregkh agreed that
>it should stew a while longer before reaching any stable releases.
>
>In addition if it gets backported to stable releases, my patch for
>core(5) from man-pages will have to get more complicated :)

I'll just drop it and let Greg deal with it then :)

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Thanks,
Sasha