Re: Issue with core dump

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Wed Nov 02 2011 - 12:00:19 EST


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.

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