Re: [2.6.27.24] Kernel coredump to a pipe is failing

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 27 May 2009 02:11:04 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I dunno.  Is this true of all linux filesystems in all cases?  Maybe.
> 
> Assuming one of them is not would you rather want to fix that file system
> or 10 zillion user programs (including the kernel core dumper) that 
> get it wrong? @)
> 

I think that removing one bug is better than adding one.

Many filesystems will return a short write if they hit a memory
allocation failure, for example.  pipe_write() sure will.  Retrying
is appropriate in such a case.

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