From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Sep 12 13: 0:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from poseidon.dcs.napier.ac.uk (poseidon.dcs.napier.ac.uk [146.176.161.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B99DF14E2D for ; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:59:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsc4093@dcs.napier.ac.uk) Received: from artemis (artemis [146.176.161.5]) by poseidon.dcs.napier.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA07681; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 20:59:09 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 20:59:30 +0100 (BST) From: Robin Carey X-Sender: bsc4093@artemis To: Garrett Wollman Cc: John Polstra , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: core dumping In-Reply-To: <199909121549.LAA25930@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < 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 > > -- > Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same > wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom > Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame > MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message