Re: [PATCH] coredump: Retry writes where appropriate

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Jun 01 2009 - 13:17:28 EST


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.

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