Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757287AbZFARRY (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:17:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751670AbZFARRP (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:17:15 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:48844 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751356AbZFARRP (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:17:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 19:11:19 +0200 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Alan Cox Cc: paul@mad-scientist.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Roland McGrath Subject: Re: [PATCH] coredump: Retry writes where appropriate Message-ID: <20090601171119.GA13970@redhat.com> References: <1243748019.7369.319.camel@homebase.localnet> <20090531111851.07eb1df3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090601161234.GA10486@redhat.com> <20090601174159.48acf3f5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090601174159.48acf3f5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 765 Lines: 22 On 06/01, Alan Cox wrote: > > > I think. As for other unhandled sig_fatal() signals, I am nor sure. > > I can make a patch, but first I need to know what this patch should do. > > Again, please look at: > > If you are on the command line then SIGINT/SIGQUIT would be the obvious > ones for this ? Not sure I understand. Do you mean we should treat the tty signals specially ? Personally, I don't think we should. If we decide that only SIGKILL interrupts the coredumping, then I think ^C should not interrupt. Oleg. -- 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/