On Monday 2010-11-29 13:55, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > >Suspending the process in the middle of the dump is a strange scenario. If you >did this accidentally, then you can notice it since you hit EAGAIN over and >over again, so you can kill the dumper manually. Though since frontend programs like iptables automatically retry on -EAGAIN, the user won't see it. >A user-space process that stops in the middle of a dump must be considered >buggy, you have to fix your user-space program. Short of misscheduling of processes on behalf of the kernel ;-) So barring process using -EAGAIN it is, then. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html