Watchdog not being disabled while dumping core

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4C725DFC.8000205 at icyb.net.ua>, Andriy Gapon writes:
>on 23/08/2010 13:53 Poul-Henning Kamp said the following:
>> In message <20100823103412.GA21044 at icarus.home.lan>, Jeremy Chadwick writes:

>Another workaround is to set watchdog timeout large enough for dumping to
>complete, but that increases time that system is unavailable during a 'hard'
>hang (e.g. caused by hardware).

You cannot trust the hardware to support such long timeouts.

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