Alright, that's a good point. I forgot the thread model uses seperate pids. Haven't done much with threading on Linux else I probably would have been happier with it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:55 AM Subject: Re: How to get RedHat 8.0 to allow core dump files > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:55:17 -0600 > "Dan Winslow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just would like to say, that this is an extremely ill-thought out > > change. It's a change to basic behavior thats been in place for years > > ...that I'm thankful for. > > > and years, and makes core files even MORE problematic for disk space > > as they don't overwrite each other. Is this a ReddHat change, or a > > linux kernel change? If RedHat came up with this, I think they are > > being extremely foolish. > > They are making core files for threaded programs useful. One hopes that > in the future Linux threads will be able to share a core file and gdb > will be able to cope, but at least this way a core file from a threaded > program might actually show you the stack trace of the thread that died > instead of the last thread to exit normally. > > > Doug > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-devel-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
