On 24/02/2010 19:59, Rogier Krieger whispered from the shadows...:
> Would the following be an improvement for the documentation? Feel free
Not entirely correct. I'd say this:
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Programs with their set-user-ID bit set or that make use of the setuid
family of functions will not dump core as a security precaution. This
prevents sensitive information from ending up on disk. For debugging,
programs affected by this should set:
sysctl kern.nosuidcoredump=2
Core dumps will then be saved to /var/crash.
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Simply referring to sysctl(3) doesn't help since the possible values
that kern.nosuidcoredump can be set to are not described there. I don't
think they're described in any man page. You either need to sift through
newsgroups, release notes, or read the source.
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