Messages in this thread | | | From | Marty Fouts <> | Subject | RE: Anyone working on multi-threaded core files for 2.4 ? | Date | Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:42:32 -0700 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Igmar Palsenberg [mailto:maillist@chello.nl]
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> > Maybe I'm totally stupid, but I think you need to sync the > threads so that > the're in the same state. And I don't think it's that simple. > > Or I'm talking totally nonsense here :) >
I think one needs to be careful of not letting a desire for the perfect solution prevent deploying a useful solution while working out the best one, in this case.
When a multithreaded application "dies" due to one of the threads failing in an unexpected and unrecoverable way, there probably isn't, at that point, a "same state" for the threads to be in, and an non-coherent dump, while still difficult to use, is more useful than not dumping any state at all, and often is coherent enough to use anyway.
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