-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/24/2014 5:43 AM, Janani Venkataraman wrote: > Gcore attaches to the process using gdb and runs the gdb gcore > command and then detaches. In gcore the dump cannot be issued from > a signal handler context as fork() is not signal safe and moreover > it is disruptive in You can fork+exec from a signal handler just fine. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTMDknAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwo2QH/RCmAn404PlO6cZLNuQ5PXqc MdR6U62K/BwZo42Fr694FzzjGKwuqx3YHB8gU+tyE26yZ31reFWG8KpdfV46NRYG sEPH/lJOerMXwfbpxE0YFZBow5wZqTg/XsiXMyz8M4/KdMgOgCEqsaG/IRPvK0+B NiaQmFct0Y2onwoy50mrR2sGeKOgA5510osoChCq+TKUrsCJp80jYvz6bVOi6kwY Oi+bAl/tzcQDy7yHkUqYJXYRf3o9jbHqGxnC/IzygOntggqmIiB8ez4ZDZC2YbOl htv0gP/jqZk8Pm3C/gv5S7xhqjy2+yvkWXg7mhsz7gsbSA4K5LXd5bN5ovEBGAw= =JWwx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
