> I'll note, for example, it's pretty easy to send a machine to hang > heaven with vi(1). [...]
Does that cause it to hang so hard it doesn't even notice a keyboard being plugged in? I suspect one reason coredumping is particularly disabling is that it is a long operation that stays in the kernel the whole time. If it's bouncing back and forth between kernel and userland, I would expect kernel facilities like USB hot-plug to run, possibly even userland - though if userland needs to hit disk it will be sloooooow. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
