* Ed Maste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070411 13:46] wrote: > On 11/04/07, Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >* Ed Maste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070410 12:47] wrote: > >> This would make the -s option to gcore redundant (since the process > >> will be stopped after attaching anyway). I don't know how useful a > >> core from a non-stopped process is, anyhow. > > > >Very, very useful. > > > >Imagine a running program that's having some form of abnormal > >behavior but can't be stopped (for long) or allowed to core... > > It's stopped for only as long as the core takes to be written. > > Currently, without the -s option the core produced by gcore is > inconsistent, and it's that behaviour that would be eliminated with my > change. Do you actually have a use for inconsistent core files?
Not so much as a need for an inconsistent core so much as a need for a core without halting the program for the time it takes to dump core. -- - Alfred Perlstein _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
