Re: [PATCH] coredump: fix pipe coredump when core limit is 0

[Pádraig Brady]

On 08/25/2011 04:57 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 08/24, Neil Horman wrote:
>>
>> The long and the short of it is, making RLIMIT_CORE == 0 for the ispipe case
>> skip the core dump, breaks lots of user space expectations
> 
> Not sure this really makes sense, but perhaps ispipe can skip the dump
> if RLIMIT_CORE == 0 _and_ the signal was sent from the user-space.

I like the sound of that, though don't know the details for
determining signal origin. SIGQUIT generated from a Ctrl-\
from the tty driver might be problematic for example.

cheers,
Pádraig.

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