gcore thread problem?

[Kip Macy]

That isn't how multi-threading is handled for core-files. For each thread an
additional set of GPRs and FPRs is added to the elf header.

 -Kip

On 11/22/06, David Xu <davidxu at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 22 November 2006 20:12, Vaidehi Shukla wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > 'gcore' doesn't display correct backtrace (info threads) for
> multi-threaded
> > application. Is there any way to get correct backtrace (i.e. info
> threads)
> > with gcore in freebsd?. Let me know if you can suggest some method to
> get
> > correct backtrace.
> >
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > Vaidehi
>
> I think it becauses threaded application does not work correctly with
> procfs, one problem is gcore is using files in /proc to get information,
> if an application has thousands of thread, should kernel create so much
> vnode for the application ? it seems to be overkill.
>
> David Xu
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