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<<On Sat, 01 Sep 2001 22:48:37 +0200, Arne Dag Fidjestøl <adf@idi.ntnu.no> said:

> You'd still need somewhere to put the status message; the dump process above 
> has no controlling terminal.

If it has no controlling terminal then it's not going to receive
ctty signals like SIGINFO.

-GAWollman


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