Re: [PATCH] coredump: Retry writes where appropriate

[Alan Cox]

> > 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 ?

Yes

> Personally, I don't think we should. If we decide that only SIGKILL
> interrupts the coredumping, then I think ^C should not interrupt.

Wait until you have a remote session over ssh that core dumps a 2GB core.
Then you'll understand why being able to ^C or ^\ it is useful.

Alan
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