linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] coredump: Retry writes where appropriate

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Message-ID: <20090601202033.GA23475@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 1 Jun 2009 22:20:33 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Paul Smith <paul@...-scientist.net>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, 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

On 06/01, Paul Smith wrote:
>
> If it's interactive, can't the user ^Z (SIGSTOP) the process being
> dumped,

No, this is very hard to implement.

Oleg.

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