Re: [PATCH] coredump: wait on the core pattern umh at least once

[Scott James Remnant]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/28, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> >
> > If a thread crashes as a result of a signal on the thread group leader
> > that signal can still be pending,
>
> No. do_coredump() clears TIF_SIGPENDING.
>
I'm definitely seeing cases where SIGTERM sent to the process group
that chrome is in results in one of chrome's thread's crashing (not
your concern, obviously), but at the point it enters this function
TIF_SIGPENDING is definitely set and the signal is SIGTERM.

The SIGTERM is in the shared pending set.

> I already tried to explain why this signal_pending() was added, but
> apparently I was not clear. I'll try again in the previous thread.
>
Could you add me to the Cc: of that thread?

Scott
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