Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 May 2009 11:18:51 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] coredump: Retry writes where appropriate |
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On Sun, 31 May 2009 01:33:39 -0400 Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net> wrote:
> coredump: Retry writes where appropriate > > Core dump write operations (especially to a pipe) can be incomplete due > to signal reception or possibly recoverable partial writes.
NAK this
> Previously any incomplete write in the ELF core dumper caused the core > dump to stop, giving short cores in these cases. Modify the core dumper > to retry the write where appropriate.
The existing behaviour is an absolute godsend when you've something like a core dump stuck on an NFS mount or something trying to core dump to very slow media.
In fact the signals checks were *purposefully added* some time ago.
Alan
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