Re: "stuck spinlock"

On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 12/12/13, 8:45 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Memo to hackers: I think the SIGSTOP stuff is rather obsolete now that
>> most systems dump core files with process IDs embedded in the names.
>
> Which systems are those?

MacOS X dumps core files into /cores/core.$PID, and at least some
Linux systems seem to dump them into ./core.$PID

I don't know how universal this is.  I think a bigger objection to the
SIGSTOP stuff is that a lot of bugs are too real time to ever be
meaningfully caught that way.

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