Re: "Real programs dump core"

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

At 6:02 Uhr +0700 06.09.2011, Robert Elz wrote:
>The limit you should be looking for is the core file size, not file size,
>(that's ulimit -c - or in csh terminology, coredumpsize) - and you also need
>to remember that sudo might be deliberately setting that to 0 to prevent
>any possibility of a core dump, testing its value in the shell isn't
>definitive (you'd need a ktrace and check for setrlimit calls).

Thanks -- setrlimit helped with sudo, which indeed disables dumping core,
unless built with -DSUDO_DEVEL.

        hauke

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