Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ptrace() and kernel tasks | Date | Tue, 11 May 1999 19:44:03 +0100 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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zack@rabi.columbia.edu said: > It might be sensible to do this for init as well; then the special > case for pid=1 can be removed from sys_ptrace(). OTOH, you might want > the core dump if init crashed.
If init dies, the kernel dies immediately, and doesn't even give you the opportunity to sync the disks. So a core dump wouldn't actually flushed to disk anyway.
I consider this behaviour to be a bug, but others think otherwise.
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