Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Sep 2000 22:05:12 +0200 (CEST) | From | Igmar Palsenberg <> | Subject | Re: Anyone working on multi-threaded core files for 2.4 ? |
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> I was aiming at the simplest and in my mind most obvious thing, which > is to have the standard ELF coreer dump handle multiple threads in the > same way as it does on many other systems. The lack of these causes > shrieks of amazement from many of our customers :-( > > This is not rocket science, and there are already debuggers (gdb, our > product TotalView, ...) which know how to understand such core dumps > if only the kernel produced them. > > Now that the kernel has mechanisms for finding all the threads in a > process, the actual dump writing should be relatively simple. (You > need to write the appropriate register notes for every thread, rather > than just one).
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 :)
Igmar
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