Re: "Real programs dump core"

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

At 6:59 Uhr -0700 05.09.2011, Andy Ruhl wrote:
>> 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.
>
>How are you deciding that they should be dumping core?

Because they say so?

% fgrep "not dumped" /var/log/messages
Sep  2 22:00:26 pizza /netbsd: pid 590 (sudo-1.7.7), uid 0: exited on
signal 10 (core not dumped, err = 27)
Sep  4 05:07:32 pizza /netbsd: pid 6605 (planner), uid 73: exited on signal
11 (core not dumped, err = 13)

        hauke

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