[CentOS] help with a dd bug
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.comWed Mar 3 18:51:05 UTC 2010
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On 3/3/2010 5:32 AM, Adrian Buciuman wrote: > Hi, > > Can somebody reproduce this bug? > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4220 > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/my_usb_stick_device_name bs=4096 count=10000 > can not be stopped with ctrl-c and is not responding to signals > > (count=10000 can be modified to give you enough time to test) > > The bug has been closed with the following comment: > "As said: dd is in an uninteruptable state when you do that. This is not a bug" > This is wrong, because IMHO dd should receive the signal after it > finishes the current read()/write() and returns to user space, but > this is not happening. > How can I reopen the bug? If you want to kill a process that doesn't want to be killed, just send it a -9. If that doesn't do it, it really is stuck in the device driver. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
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