Re: Anyone working on multi-threaded core files for 2.4 ?

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 12:22:28PM +0100, James Cownie wrote:
> 
> Please let me know (by mail) otherwise I may take a look, since it
> doesn't appear to be a _huge_ problem any longer, and it's one of the
> things users keep bitching at us about when using our debugger :-(

The synchronization on dump between the processes sharing a VM is quite nasty 
actually. There were patches for it in the past, but they usually got that
wrong. Linux has no way currently to stop them atomically.


-Andi
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