On 03/24/2014 07:24 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 3/24/2014 5:43 AM, Janani Venkataraman wrote: >> Gcore attaches to the process using gdb and runs the gdb gcore >> command and then detaches. In gcore the dump cannot be issued from >> a signal handler context as fork() is not signal safe and moreover >> it is disruptive in > > You can fork+exec from a signal handler just fine. Please go through the bug, and especially the comment below :
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4737#c12 Cheers Suzuki -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
