Re: PID of multi-threaded core's file name is wrong in 2.5.59

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:21:25PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 04:56, MAEDA Naoaki wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I found sometimes pid of muitl-threaded core's file name shows
> > wrong number in 2.5.59 with NPTL-0.17. Problem is, pid of core file
> > name comes from currnet->pid, but I think it should be current->tgid.
> 
> The value needs to be unique so that you can dump multiple threads
> at the same time and not have one overwrite another. You might want
> to add the tgid as another format type to the core name formatting so
> users can select the behaviour you desire however ?

I think this isn't an issue; multi-threaded core dumps are done by
the core_waiter synchronization, so all other threads will have exited
before the first thread to crash actually writes out its core.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer