Re: "Real programs dump core"

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost> 
wrote:
> All,
>
> is there a master switch to remove any and all restrictions for binaries to
> dump core?
>
> For the second time in a short while, I have run into pkgsrc binaries that
> crash reproducibly, but won't dump core no matter what (security/sudo, now
> sysutils/amanda planner). I found kern.coredump.setid.dump, but it didn't
> make a difference for sudo.

Maybe they are just being polite? It's possible for the code to come
upon a condition it doesn't expect and to exit, although you would
hope that it would be verbose about it...

How are you deciding that they should be dumping core?

Andy