Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759916AbXK1NAW (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:00:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754522AbXK1NAG (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:00:06 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:35534 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754167AbXK1NAE (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:00:04 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:55:44 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Robin Holt Cc: Oleg Nesterov , Roland McGrath , Kawai@americas.sgi.com, Hidehiro , Davide Libenzi , Bron Nelson , Stephen Champion , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Can we make application core dumps interruptible? Message-ID: <20071128125544.3a1ac7dd@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <20071128123823.GB919@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> References: <20071128123823.GB919@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 640 Lines: 15 > They hoped for a couple changes, one of which is a way for a SIGTERM, > SIGKILL, or something along that line interrupting the core dump process. > Is this the correct direction to take? Are there any better ideas for > handling this? Probably. In addition current kernels allow you to pipe the core dump via a userspace helper instead of direct to disk. That may possibly be helpful ? Alan - 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/