Subject: Re: [PATCH] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when
 using pipes in core_pattern
From: Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       earl_chew@agilent.com
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:13:02 +0100
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On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 13:28 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:

> 2) Allow for the kernel to wait for a core_pattern process to complete.  =
One of
> the things core_pattern processes might do is interrogate the status of a
> crashing process via its /proc/pid directory.  To ensure that that direct=
ory is
> not removed prematurely, we wait for the process to exit prior to cleanin=
g it
> up.
>=20
Would this mean that the kernel would wait for the pattern process to
complete before PANIC in the case of init core dumping?

I'd find that useful :-)

Scott
--=20
Scott James Remnant
scott@canonical.com

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