From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: paul@mad-scientist.net, 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
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 21:09:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090601190914.GV1065@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090601200232.078aacbb@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 08:02:32PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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)
Maybe we need a background core dump?
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-01 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-31 5:33 [PATCH] coredump: Retry writes where appropriate Paul Smith
2009-05-31 10:18 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-31 14:03 ` Olivier Galibert
2009-05-31 16:31 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-31 16:49 ` Olivier Galibert
2009-05-31 17:46 ` Paul Smith
2009-05-31 16:56 ` Paul Smith
2009-06-01 16:12 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-01 16:41 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-01 17:11 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-01 17:46 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-01 18:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-01 20:38 ` Roland McGrath
2009-06-01 22:32 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-01 23:02 ` Roland McGrath
2009-06-02 0:08 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-03 7:09 ` Roland McGrath
2009-06-04 3:15 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-04 17:14 ` Roland McGrath
2009-06-23 17:31 ` Paul Smith
2009-06-23 19:37 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-07-07 19:37 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-02 8:21 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-02 15:29 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-03 7:15 ` Roland McGrath
2009-06-03 14:05 ` Paul Smith
2009-06-01 17:36 ` Paul Smith
2009-06-01 17:49 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-01 18:39 ` Paul Smith
2009-06-01 19:02 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-01 19:09 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-06-01 19:06 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-01 19:14 ` Andi Kleen
2009-06-01 19:51 ` Paul Smith
2009-06-01 20:20 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-06-01 21:34 ` Alan Cox
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