Re: [PATCH] kernel 2.4.19 & 2.5.38 - coredump sysctl

[Andrew Morton]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Andrew Morton <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> > True, but it's all more code and I don't believe that it adds
> > much value.  It means that people need to run off and find
> 
> One useful feature of it would be that you can get core dumps for
> each thread by including the pid (or tid later with newer threading libraries)
> Currently threads when core dumping overwrite each others cores so you lose
> the registers of all but one.

Oh sure, I agree that it's a useful feature.  But I don't agree that
we need to allow users to specify how the final filename is pasted
together.  Just give them host-uid-gid-comm.core.  ie: everything.