On 14-Jan-2006 Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> The one thing that a having the ownership be root doesn't do is limiting
> the space.  If necessary, creating a new administrative user ("core"?)
> could be used (tunable via sysctl), but I'd argue that we can solve that
> problem later.

If we provide a set of defaults.. I'd prefer it was root:/var/crash or maybe
/var/core and have /var/core entered in mtree.  If you set the dir to NULL or
somesuch perhaps it would default to standard coredump behavior of dropping in
the pwd.

That being said.. I would prefer we allowed to to be tunable.  We provide the
rope and all that stuff.  I would like to be able to say that all such
coredumps might be owned by the user "garbled" if I feel like it.

We could allways add a setgidcoreas_euid switch later or something too..

Reasonable defaults is all that really matters though.

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Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
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