linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] proc, coredump: add CoreDumping flag to /proc/pid/status

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Date:   Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:21:59 -0700
From:   Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
To:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
CC:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] proc, coredump: add CoreDumping flag to /proc/pid/status

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.