[PATCH] make sure we can always dump core on Linux

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Sat Sep 3 17:17:35 GMT 2005


On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 05:16:19PM +1000, James Peach wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This fixes an occasionally annoying feature of Linux where programs that
> use setuid calls don't get to dump core any more. There is some setting
> under /proc (whose name I now forget) to change this on a system wide
> basis. However, since we know how to dump core nicely, IMO we might as
> well do it.
> 
> Comments appreciated, otherwise I'll merge it in a day or so ...

Looks good to me.

Jeremy.


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