On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > CRIU folks, how do you deal with futex robust lists? -- Thanks, //richard -- 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
