On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:24:57 +0100 Terry Barnaby <terry1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/25/2009 09:03 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:57:14 +0100 > > Terry Barnaby wrote: > > > >> In my eyes as an old Unix > >> developer standards are slipping ... > > > > I dunno. Perhaps the oldest code in Unix is the code that > > generates corefile, and you've never been able to kill -9 > > that once a process starts coredumping multiple gigabytes > > over a slow NFS link. I wish they'd put a check in there :-). > > > At least that would finish eventually and the system > would continue running :) Linux fixed that one. You can also core dump to dump directory, or through a core dumper helper application. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines