miket
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 12:28:59PM +0300, Alon Ziv wrote:
>
> ...
>
> So, we must create the coredump immediately when the fault is detected;
> and this (IMO) means it must be done in the kernel, as we don't want to
> implement some extremely complex inter-task messaging mechanism to make
> sure the manager is the next task which will run.
>
> To sum it up, it appears as if we'll have to use something like the patch
> that was recently posted that will produce a real threaded coredump for
> all tasks sharing the same mm, and possibly we'll also require a change in
> the fault handing logic so that after a force_sig the same task will
> _always_ go on running to handle the trap...
>
> -az
>
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