From aa57580fda26bd33e55fb3ecf307681cb3359362 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Andrews Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:40:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add reference to contrib/linux/coredump-patch --- README | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README b/README index f0a7a05087..e2d8c09ce6 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ Building HP-UX 11 IRIX64 6.5 NetBSD-current (with unproven-pthreads-0.17) - Red Hat Linux 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 + Red Hat Linux 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 [Linux kernel patch] Solaris 2.6, 7, 8 Additionally, we have unverified reports of success building @@ -209,6 +209,10 @@ Building on your system, and some require Perl; see bin/tests/system/README for details. + Linux kernel patch: + To get useful core dumps under Linux it is necessary to get the + kernel to write the offending thread written to disk. There is + a patch, contrib/linux/coredump-patch, which achieves this. Documentation