From d216b211c306eccfc6e288c9f16242d45f451cd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:58:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Minor wording changes --- man5/core.5 | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man5/core.5 b/man5/core.5 index e12eba021..634ca51b3 100644 --- a/man5/core.5 +++ b/man5/core.5 @@ -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),