linux-kernel - Re: perf: report loops endlessly if record was killed via SIGTERM

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Date:	Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:27:01 -0400
From:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: perf: report loops endlessly if record was killed via SIGTERM

On 4/29/13 4:00 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Say SIGINT instead,
> and it works as expected.  SIGTERM leaves perf.data in a bad state that
> report can't deal with, but it'll happily keep trying forever.

header is usually updated on_exit which requires a clean exit. perhaps 
we should add SIGTERM to the signal list.

David
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