> Is there a way to interrupt core dumping? > Normally we want core files but sometimes it takes too much time, we know > the problem, and we would really like to stop system to generate core and > just exit process.
Core dumping is interruptible -- while i/o is in progress, you can hit the process with SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGKILL, or SIGTERM and the core dump will be interrupted, leaving a truncated core (and a hint for mdb). Note that the kernel forcibly unblocks those four signals as part of the core dump process, so it does not matter if they were previously blocked. -Mike -- Mike Shapiro, Solaris Kernel Development. blogs.sun.com/mws/
