Alright, that's a good point. I forgot the thread model uses seperate pids. Haven't done much with threading on Linux else I probably would have been happier with it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Kilpatrick" <kilpatds@oppositelock.org> To: <redhat-devel-list@redhat.com> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:55 AM Subject: Re: How to get RedHat 8.0 to allow core dump files > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:55:17 -0600 > "Dan Winslow" <d.winslow@cox.net> wrote: > > > I just would like to say, that this is an extremely ill-thought out > > change. It's a change to basic behavior thats been in place for years > > ...that I'm thankful for. > > > and years, and makes core files even MORE problematic for disk space > > as they don't overwrite each other. Is this a ReddHat change, or a > > linux kernel change? If RedHat came up with this, I think they are > > being extremely foolish. > > They are making core files for threaded programs useful. One hopes that > in the future Linux threads will be able to share a core file and gdb > will be able to cope, but at least this way a core file from a threaded > program might actually show you the stack trace of the thread that died > instead of the last thread to exit normally. > > > Doug > -- > kilpatds@oppositelock.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-devel-list mailing list > Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
