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Date:      Tue, 13 Aug 2002 05:52:07 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
Cc:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, <bhlewis@wossname.net>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Is anyone else having trouble with dump(8) on -current?
Message-ID:  <20020813055009.N25992-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020812140551.GC45699@luke.immure.com>

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On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Bob Willcox wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 10:16:56PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
>
>  [snip]
>
> > I just saw a reply from the original (?) author of the PR.  Apparently
> > dump gets killed by amanda.  Does amanda actually kill its children
> > enough to matter?
>
> >From my experience/use with amanda I know that it _always_ kills the
> dumps that it starts when doing its estimates at the beginning (often
> several per file system, one for each dump level it's interested in). I
> don't think it deliberately kills the dumps when actually dumping the
> data. :-)

So the problem seems to be mainly that dump expects all syscalls to be
restarted after it catches these signals, and open() isn't restarted.

Bruce


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