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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2017-01-30 10:46:25 +1300 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2017-01-30 10:46:25 +1300 |
| commit | aee425775079c438f91e0914ca5e6ab65c319381 (patch) | |
| tree | 0d5c2f2fe35c835c48576f2effd7e6c5b128afa5 /man5 | |
| parent | 5465ae9568911be695ce4d699758f6098157d97e (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-aee425775079c438f91e0914ca5e6ab65c319381.tar.gz | |
core.5: The target of core dump piping can also be a script
Verified by experiment.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man5')
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/core.5 | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man5/core.5 b/man5/core.5 index a7b392f725..205dd90b46 100644 --- a/man5/core.5 +++ b/man5/core.5 @@ -239,8 +239,8 @@ Since kernel 2.6.19, Linux supports an alternate syntax for the .I /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern file. If the first character of this file is a pipe symbol (\fB|\fP), -then the remainder of the line is interpreted as a user-space program to be -executed. +then the remainder of the line is interpreted as the command-line for +a a user-space program (or script) that is to be executed. Instead of being written to a disk file, the core dump is given as standard input to the program. Note the following points: |