On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 03:21:59PM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 01:15:26AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Or add "State: C" ? > > A program in such state can also sleep and run, so it's not > a state in terms of process states.
Well, maybe something will break from seeing unknown process state. Regardless, symlink /proc/$PID/coredump pointing to either "0" or "1" is faster than open+read+parse+close.
