richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Notify get_robust_list users that the syscall is going away. >> >> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> --- > > I'm using this system call in an application and noticed that's marked > as deprecated now. > My application collects all kind of information from crashing programs. > It's installed in /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern. > > If program X is crashing it executes get_robust_list(X) to get the > address of the robust list > and reads the list from /proc/X/mem. > > Is there another way to get the robust list from another program (by it's pid)? The folks doing checkpoint/restart claim to not need this, so there might be a way either that or they just haven't hit this problem yet. What you are doing sounds like a reasonable use of get_robust_list to me. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
