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@@ -25,8 +25,10 @@ subsystem crash 32000;
/* Handle a crashing task, whose task control port is TASK.
- FILE is a file port open for writing. The caller will link it to "core"
- (or whatever name) if the RPC returns success.
+ FILE is a file port open for writing. The caller will link it to
+ "core" (or whatever name) if the RPC returns success. If EEXIST is
+ returned, the core file has been written to a different file,
+ therefore FILE can be discarded.
SIGNO, SIGCODE, and SIGERROR indicate the signal that killed the
process. EXC is zero for a software signal; otherwise EXC, CODE, and