Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Jun 2009 21:09:14 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] coredump: Retry writes where appropriate |
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On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 08:02:32PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > If a program seems to be unresponsive the user could ^C, without > > realizing that it was really dumping core. Now when they are asked to > > produce the core so the problem can be debugged, they can't do it. Or, > > and get their prompt back, which is probably why they are banging ^C. If > they didn't want their prompt back at that point they'd still be > wondering why nothing was occuring at the point it said (core dumped)
Maybe we need a background core dump?
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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