On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Sri Ram Vemulpali <sri.ram.gmu06@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is regarding segment fault. Is there any feature that we can > allow kernel to kill only the thread that generate seg fault rather > than killing whole process in which it is running. Why is that we did > not implement in such way. Is there any specific reason. Thanks in > advance for explanation. What is the guarantee that whole process isn't hosed up ? For example let's say a global pointer became NULL and we died accessing it from 1 of the threads. I'm not sure if it would be better to have 'N' coredumps as opposed to just 1. -- Thanks - Manish _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies