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Message-ID: <20090601200232.078aacbb@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 20:02:32 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: paul@...-scientist.net
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
stable@...nel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coredump: Retry writes where appropriate
> 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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