Re: [RFC] [Patch 0/21] Non disruptive application core dumpinfrastructure

[Andi Kleen]

> 1) A process can trigger a core synchronously, upon an event, say a signal 
> handler and continue from there. gcore would require a fork(), which is not 
> safe to use from a signal handler.

Why is it not safe for a signal?

>From the kernel side it should be. glibc may do some funky things
on fork, but you could always call the syscall directly.

-Andi
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