Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755569AbZGCKpH (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2009 06:45:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752548AbZGCKo5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2009 06:44:57 -0400 Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:44296 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752397AbZGCKo5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jul 2009 06:44:57 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 06:44:47 -0400 From: Neil Horman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, earl_chew@agilent.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, andi@firstfloor.org, nhorman@tuxdriver.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern (v8) Message-ID: <20090703104447.GA19371@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> References: <20090622172818.GB14673@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090622172818.GB14673@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 634 Lines: 22 Patch V8, converting fatal_signal_pending to signal_pending This patcset provides improvements to the core_pattern infrastructure: 1) Make detection of recurseive core dumps more robust and accurate 2) Provide a sysctl to limit the number of parallel coredumps in flight when using pipes 3) Allows for the kernel to wait for the completion of user space core dump processing Neil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/