Re: do_coredump and O_NOFOLLOW

[Andy Isaacson]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 01:36:54PM +0800, gshan wrote:
> I found that O_NOFOLLOW is used for opened core file in Linux 2.6.10. 
> This means the core file couldn't be a symbolic link. However, I want to 
> use symbolic link for core file

I would recommend that you use
# sysctl -w kernel.core_pattern=/tmp/core.%e.%p
instead.  See Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt for details.

-andy
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