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Michael Kerrisk 2006-04-15 20:58:17 +00:00
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@ -134,9 +134,16 @@ shares its memory with another process by being created with the
flag of
.BR clone (2))
dumps core, then the process ID is always appended to the core filename,
unless the PID was otherwise included as a consequence of a
%p specification in
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
.\" 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
.\" way of telling which threading implementation the userspace
.\" application is using). -- mtk, April 2006
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR gdb (1),
.BR getrlimit (2),