bug on webpage about forcing coredump

[Korenberg Mark]

​http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Core_dump

at the end of page:

"kill -4" is "kill -ILL", but not "kill -KILL"

There is typo on the page. So, change to "kill -9" or change to "kill -ILL". I think "-ILL" should be.

[Frank Mehnert]

This is not a bug, this is by intension. If you kill a process with kill -9 you wouldn't get a core dump. kill -4 (as if the application would have observed an illegal instruction) is more reliable. Note further that the VirtualBox applications override some signal handlers. So kill -4 is fine.

[Korenberg Mark]

Replying to frank:

This is not a bug, this is by intension. If you kill a process with kill -9 you wouldn't get a core dump. kill -4 (as if the application would have observed an illegal instruction) is more reliable. Note further that the VirtualBox applications override some signal handlers. So kill -4 is fine.

Yes, but i mean that there is just typo ! Please correct the site.

---

Passing the signal number 4 (SIGKILL) is essential! The same applies to the alternative frontends VBoxHeadless and VBoxSDL. --- Should be replaced with

---

Passing the signal number 4 (SIGILL) is essential! The same applies to the alternative frontends VBoxHeadless and VBoxSDL. ---

[Frank Mehnert]

Oh, I'm very sorry that I misunderstood you! Thank you for this report. Fixed.