From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 12 13: 9: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 810E837B400 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:08:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D41B43E42 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:08:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA14541; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 05:47:04 +1000 Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 05:52:07 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Bob Willcox Cc: Ian Dowse , Alexander Leidinger , , Subject: Re: Is anyone else having trouble with dump(8) on -current? In-Reply-To: <20020812140551.GC45699@luke.immure.com> Message-ID: <20020813055009.N25992-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message