In article <199510041416.OAA02046@orchard.medford.ma.us>
sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us (Bill Sommerfeld) writes:

	   The default core dump mode should be a configurable parameter,
	   and it should be modified by the umask of the process.

I strongly disagree.  Core dumps can often contain passwords and
similarly private things, which have no business being world-readable.
One should not have to one's umask to 77 just to protect a few bits of
data.

Core dumps should be mode 0600 by default.