>>>>> "Grahame" == Grahame M Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Grahame> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:29:23 pm Peter Chubb wrote:
>> "echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger"

Grahame> Thanks Peter.  On my system it places the output into the
Grahame> syslog file.  Just what I needed.


Grahame> A couple of questions though.

Grahame> 1> I suspect that child processes are dumped the same way but what
Grahame> about multi-threads?

If the multiple threads are via the new posix thread library, they'll
show up as multiple tasks.

Grahame> 2> Usually you can "attach" a pid via gdb, but what do you do if that
Grahame> process doesn't allow "attachment"?

Then you're stuck.  Generally kernel threads won't allow attachment;
for them you need a kernel debugger.
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