Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:11:39 +0200 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] coredump: fix pipe coredump when core limit is 0 |
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On 08/25, Neil Horman wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 05:57:35PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > On 08/24, Neil Horman wrote: > > > > > > The long and the short of it is, making RLIMIT_CORE == 0 for the ispipe case > > > skip the core dump, breaks lots of user space expectations > > > > Not sure this really makes sense, but perhaps ispipe can skip the dump > > if RLIMIT_CORE == 0 _and_ the signal was sent from the user-space. > > > If you can guarantee that the signal came from user space, yes, that would work > I imagine.
No, I was wrong.
> alternatively I expect we could modify the kernel thread creation > routine such that it sets PR_SET_DUMPABLE to zero for all kernel threads
Just curious... why?
Oleg.
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