Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 20:02:32 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: paul@mad-scientist.net
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       stable@kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coredump: Retry writes where appropriate
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> If a program seems to be unresponsive the user could ^C, without
> realizing that it was really dumping core.  Now when they are asked to
> produce the core so the problem can be debugged, they can't do it.  Or,

and get their prompt back, which is probably why they are banging ^C. If
they didn't want their prompt back at that point they'd still be
wondering why nothing was occuring at the point it said (core dumped)

Alan
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