From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Kawai@americas.sgi.com, Hidehiro <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
Bron Nelson <bron@sgi.com>, Stephen Champion <schamp@sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can we make application core dumps interruptible?
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:55:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071128125544.3a1ac7dd@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071128123823.GB919@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-28 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-28 12:38 Robin Holt
2007-11-28 12:55 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-11-29 12:01 ` Oleg Nesterov
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