Re: [PATCH] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern

Scott James Remnant
2009-07-29T15:13:06Z

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On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 13:28 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:

> 2) Allow for the kernel to wait for a core_pattern process to complete. One of
> the things core_pattern processes might do is interrogate the status of a
> crashing process via its /proc/pid directory. To ensure that that directory is
> not removed prematurely, we wait for the process to exit prior to cleaning it
> up.
>
Would this mean that the kernel would wait for the pattern process to
complete before PANIC in the case of init core dumping?

I'd find that useful :-)

Scott
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