Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Jun 2009 20:02:32 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] coredump: Retry writes where appropriate |
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> 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)
Alan
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