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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] signals: print_fatal_signal: fix the signr "calculation"
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 12:05:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080309110511.GA18128@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080308190311.779B326F990@magilla.localdomain>


* Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure print-fatal-signals was really ever intended for 
> non-coredump signals.  It doesn't seem like it would be all that 
> useful.  It's probably even undesireable for every normal C-c killing 
> something to cause a printk.

correct. We used to have them for SIGKILL but even that was confusing to 
users - so the intent very much is to only have them for truly 
unexpected, non-user generated and 'fatal', coredump-generating signals.

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-09 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-08 17:24 Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-08 19:03 ` Roland McGrath
2008-03-08 20:30   ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-09 11:05   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-03-09 16:11     ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-11  2:19       ` Roland McGrath
2008-03-11 18:22         ` Oleg Nesterov

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