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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2017-10-09 22:25:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2017-10-09 22:25:05 +0200 |
| commit | 97839a765d584aa4c46a1917f142915c91a9d61b (patch) | |
| tree | 72badad8df4521551acb9a0ab8e950baaf60b473 /man5 | |
| parent | dca5d444b3029dca95e55e0e4d1dac22dfa5366b (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-97839a765d584aa4c46a1917f142915c91a9d61b.tar.gz | |
core.5: RLIMIT_CORE is not enforced when piping core dump to a program
Reported-by: Per Böhlin <Per.Bohlin@zenterio.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man5')
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/core.5 | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man5/core.5 b/man5/core.5 index 799596b490..5a57c8b7af 100644 --- a/man5/core.5 +++ b/man5/core.5 @@ -291,6 +291,11 @@ specifier to change to the location of the dumping process via Command-line arguments can be supplied to the program (since Linux 2.6.24), delimited by white space (up to a total line length of 128 bytes). +.IP * +The +.B RLIMIT_CORE +limit is not enforced for core dumps that are piped to a program +via this mechanism. .\" .SS /proc/sys/kernel/core_pipe_limit When collecting core dumps via a pipe to a user-space program, |