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Added a sentence noting why core dumps named "core.PID" were useful 

with LinuxThreads.
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Michael Kerrisk 2007-06-16 11:32:28 +00:00
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@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ 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 .
.\" FIXME Is the following speculation correct? If it is, then
.\" it might be worth incorporating it into the text:
(This is primarily useful when employing the 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,
.\" but doesn't seem to serve any purpose with NPTL, where all the
@ -161,4 +161,5 @@ filename via a %p specification in
.BR sigaction (2),
.BR elf (5),
.BR proc (5),
.BR pthreads (7),
.BR signal (7)