On 11/02, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Also, the time between do_user_fault() and actual core dumping isn't > the important factor here. do_user_fault() directly triggers delivery > of SIGSEGV (or BUS) and signal delivery will immediately deliver > SIGKILL to all other threads in the process, Not really, note the "if (!sig_kernel_coredump(sig))" check. And this is what we can improve. But this is not simple, and personally I think doesn't worth the trouble. Oleg.
