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Date:      Sun, 12 Sep 1999 11:49:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Robin Carey <bsc4093@dcs.napier.ac.uk>
Cc:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: core dumping
Message-ID:  <199909121549.LAA25930@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SO4.4.01.9909121413040.10-100000@artemis>
References:  <199909040123.SAA10094@vashon.polstra.com> <Pine.SO4.4.01.9909121413040.10-100000@artemis>

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<<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.

-GAWollman

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