> This simple patch makes core dumps a config option (which only appears
> when you select support for that binary format). People who use linux
> for offering shell accounts, ftp or WWW servers typically don't use core
> dumps. In fact, only software devlopers are usually interested in core
> dumps.
Yeah and software developers kind of like it when they can ask
non-developer users to send them a core file; or at least give them a
backtrace from a core file.
I much prefer the other patch that's floating around that makes coredumps
/proc configurable. It allows you to choose if coredumps happen or not;
and if setuid programs generate coredumps or not. The latter is somewhat
useful, especially if you run Apache and it coredumps. Since apache uses
setuid(), none of its processes are allowed to coredump. That makes
postmortem pretty useless for us (and for apache module authors...).
Dean
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