As Chris G Demetriou wrote:

> Charles, re: "is a core dump on this weird file system safe"?
> Actually, a good solution there might be a "NOCOREDUMP" mount flag, a
> la NOSUID and NOEXEC.  That has several advantages:

It doesn't solve the problem where this discussion originated, but i
like this idea.  I've seen programs dump 80 MB core files over
ethernet -- and once they do this, you cannot stop them.  (Maybe you
could quickly delete the file from the server, so the client would get
a stale NFS file handle, but it's a crock.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

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