On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 12:17:15PM +0100, Roman Gushchin wrote: > Right now there is no convenient way to check if a process is being > coredumped at the moment. > > It might be necessary to recognize such state to prevent killing > the process and getting a broken coredump. > Writing a large core might take significant time, and the process > is unresponsive during it, so it might be killed by timeout, > if another process is monitoring and killing/restarting > hanging tasks. > > To provide an ability to detect if a process is in the state of > being coreduped, we can expose a boolean CoreDumping flag > in /proc/pid/status. >
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