>On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 05:06:23PM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>> Can anyone point me at the code which checks and then refuses to dump
>> core when the uid has changed since the last time execve was called?
--snip--
>Check kernel/sys.c in the set*id functions.
Whenever core dumps should not happen, the flag current->dumpable
is set to 0. This is done in many places. The code you are interested
in is in either fs/exec.c or kernel/sys.c or both
Zachary Amsden
amsden@andrew.cmu.edu
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