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From: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
To: Sri Ram Vemulpali <sri.ram.gmu06@gmail.com>
Cc: Kernel-newbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>,
linux-kernel-mail <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: process exception
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:36:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikL_+_STupmVyD6pLKrTETmGQ=v0MMMWW=nq-UO@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikfO_uKa16eQJZgSHL6CjTassCmv7W_VcPDON9u@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Sri Ram Vemulpali
<sri.ram.gmu06@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is regarding segment fault. Is there any feature that we can
> allow kernel to kill only the thread that generate seg fault rather
> than killing whole process in which it is running. Why is that we did
> not implement in such way. Is there any specific reason. Thanks in
> advance for explanation.
What is the guarantee that whole process isn't hosed up ? For example
let's say a global pointer became NULL and we died accessing it from 1
of the threads. I'm not sure if it would be better to have 'N'
coredumps as opposed to just 1.
--
Thanks -
Manish
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2011-01-31 22:31 Sri Ram Vemulpali
2011-01-31 22:36 ` Manish Katiyar [this message]
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