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Date:      Sun, 12 Sep 1999 20:59:30 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robin Carey <bsc4093@dcs.napier.ac.uk>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: core dumping
Message-ID:  <Pine.SO4.4.01.9909122058130.2783-100000@artemis>
In-Reply-To: <199909121549.LAA25930@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 14:18:15 +0100 (BST), Robin Carey <bsc4093@dcs.napier.ac.uk> said:
> 
> > Whilst the program/process was dumping core (took about 10 mins to
> > complete) the core-dumping process/program would not respond to a ^C or a
> > ^Z. I never got around to trying a kill(1) -9 ....
> 
> The program was already in `exiting' state.  You can't send signals to
> a dead process.

Ok - I thought this might be the case .... I take it no-one at FreeBSD
thinks that this should be changed then (given the ulimit stuff) ?

l8r ....

> 
> -GAWollman
> 
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