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Updated FIXME

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Michael Kerrisk 2006-04-15 21:31:43 +00:00
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@ -137,8 +137,11 @@ 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 made sense for LinuxThreads, where each thread had a unique
.\" PID, but doesn't seem to have any use with NPTL, where all the
.\" FIXME Is the following speculation correct? If it is, then
.\" it might be worth incorporating it into the text:
.\" Always including the PID in the name of the core file made
.\" sense for LinuxThreads, where each thread had a unique PID,
.\" but doesn't seem to server any purposewith NPTL, where all the
.\" threads in a process share the same PID (as POSIX.1 requires).
.\" Probably the behaviour is maintained so that applications using
.\" LinuxThreads continue appending the PID (the kernel has no easy