Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:55:44 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Can we make application core dumps interruptible? |
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> They hoped for a couple changes, one of which is a way for a SIGTERM, > SIGKILL, or something along that line interrupting the core dump process. > Is this the correct direction to take? Are there any better ideas for > handling this?
Probably. In addition current kernels allow you to pipe the core dump via a userspace helper instead of direct to disk. That may possibly be helpful ?
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