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From: La Monte Yarroll <piggy@laurelnetworks.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Provide control over core name even for multithreaded processes
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 09:50:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080903095036.0331de10@kartuli> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080902151426.98935cd1.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 15:14:26 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:22:15 -0400
> "La Monte H.P. Yarroll" <piggy@laurelnetworks.com> wrote:
> 
> > Our system explicitly sets core_pattern to force a relatively small
> > limit on the number of different core dump names.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, the kernel unconditionally appends .<tid> for
> > multithreaded processes.
> > 
> > The attached patch introduces "%T" to the core_pattern language,
> > which expands to ".<tid>" for multithreaded processes. It then
> > changes the default core_pattern to "core%T" replicating the
> > current default behavior.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: La Monte H.P. Yarroll <piggy@laurelnetworks.com>
> > 74-256740
...
> 
> Please review Oleg's
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/coredump-format_corename-dont-append-%25pid-if-multi-threaded.patch,
> which I have queued for 2.6.28.

Thanks! This is even better and looks like it meets our needs.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-09-03 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-29 19:22 [PATCH] Provide control over core name even for multithreaded processes La Monte H.P. Yarroll
2008-09-02 22:14 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-03 13:50   ` La Monte Yarroll [this message]

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