Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Jun 2009 18:46:08 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] coredump: Retry writes where appropriate |
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> > If you are on the command line then SIGINT/SIGQUIT would be the obvious > > ones for this ? > > Not sure I understand. Do you mean we should treat the tty signals > specially ?
Yes
> Personally, I don't think we should. If we decide that only SIGKILL > interrupts the coredumping, then I think ^C should not interrupt.
Wait until you have a remote session over ssh that core dumps a 2GB core. Then you'll understand why being able to ^C or ^\ it is useful.
Alan
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