Re: How to enable core dumps

Dmitry <[email protected]> Fri, 15 May 2009 00:07:36 +0400

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Michiel Boland wrote:
> It could be that the OS does not allow coredumps for processes that have 
> done a setuid.

Thank you, Michiel, you were right. Linux man page for setuid(2) says:
If  uid  is different from the old effective uid, the process will be 
forbidden from leaving core dumps.

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Dmitry