Re: manipulating sigmask from filesystems and drivers

Jamie Lokier
2002-08-02T17:11:25Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Sending somebody a SIGKILL (or any signal that kills the process) is
> different (in my opinion) from a signal that interrupts a system call in
> order to run a signal handler.

So it's ok to have truncated log entries (or more realistically,
truncated simple database entries) if the logging program is killed?

-- Jamie