On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:32:50PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: Content-Description: message body text > The /proc/PID/coredump_filter mechanism makes it easy to tweak the > per-process setting to control ELF core dump style details. > This setting is per-process (per-mm) and inherited by children. > > But as a user, the /proc interface is insane. It prints a magical hex > value (without a leading 0x, to make it sneaky), which you'll be damn lucky > to figure out from reading Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. Then you > get to set it to another such magical value, which is in decimal unless you > add a leading 0x (cat /proc/x/coredump_filter > /proc/y/coredump_filter > does not copy the setting, go team). > > I have kicking around this half-assed bash script that I don't care to > bother making really presentable. Where should it live? In the upstream > kernel's scripts/? (Then noone would ever see it for sure.) > In util-linux-ng? Or what? Someone want to take it off my hands? either util-linux or procps is my suggestion. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list