Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:18:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:18:57 -0500 Received: from ausmtp02.au.ibm.COM ([202.135.136.105]:6815 "EHLO ausmtp02.au.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:18:56 -0500 Message-ID: <3E26C27A.7040107@ToughGuy.net> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:02:26 +0530 From: Linux Geek User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@chaos.analogic.com CC: Maciej Soltysiak , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Tar'ing /proc ??? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > >the read. The result is a deadlock. Since `cat` or `cp` use >small blocks and never have to call the kernel for additional >resources, you can use them to get a snapshot. > > Cool , Understood now ! . Thanks a lot for the time. > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/