Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com> writes: > On 2014-11-25 at 13:21, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com> writes: >> >>> Test 039 used to fail >> I'm confused: "used to" suggests it doesn't anymore, but you sending a >> patches strongly suggests something's broken. > > Well, it used to fail before this series. :-P > > You're right, this sounds bad. Currently, 039 does fail, at least on > any system with a /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern passing the dump to > another program. After this series, it does no longer. > >>> because qemu-io -c abort may generate core dumps >>> even with ulimit -c 0 (and the output then contains "(core dumped)"). >> How? > > See the patches[1][2] by Mao Chuan Li. If > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern passes the dump to another program, > ulimit -c 0 does not matter. > > [1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-11/msg02092.html > [2] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-11/msg02093.html > > The problem with those patches is that they require access to > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern. I don't like having to run the iotests > as root.
To me, this sounds like a case of "doctor, it hurts when I do this".
