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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2013-06-08 12:02:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2013-06-12 14:56:28 +0200 |
| commit | 173e4d50e7f77747d21729239d471f0b1e50d268 (patch) | |
| tree | 64eefe48103723e773745667e786d98c9b4558ae /man5 | |
| parent | 18299dfc00573ec8270b24059aef39f6ba5af7d5 (diff) | |
core.5: Implicitly adding the PID to a core filename was dropped in 2.6.27
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man5')
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/core.5 | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man5/core.5 b/man5/core.5 index e71277dd..17d0cce3 100644 --- a/man5/core.5 +++ b/man5/core.5 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" %%%LICENSE_END .\" -.TH CORE 5 2013-02-25 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH CORE 5 2013-06-08 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME core \- core dump file .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -300,7 +300,9 @@ The .I gcore command can be used to obtain a core dump of a running process. -If a multithreaded process (or, more precisely, a process that +In Linux versions up to and including 2.6.27, +.\" Changed with commit 6409324b385f3f63a03645b4422e3be67348d922 +if a multithreaded process (or, more precisely, a process that shares its memory with another process by being created with the .B CLONE_VM flag of @@ -309,7 +311,8 @@ dumps core, then the process ID is always appended to the core filename, unless the process ID was already included elsewhere in the filename via a %p specification in .IR /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern . -(This is primarily useful when employing the LinuxThreads implementation, +(This is primarily useful when employing the obsolete +LinuxThreads implementation, where each thread of a process has a different PID.) .\" Always including the PID in the name of the core file made .\" sense for LinuxThreads, where each thread had a unique PID, |