Re: setcap effect on core-ing

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Hello Bill,

On 01/10/2015 08:39 PM, McConnaughey, Bill wrote:
> I stumbled on this: when I do setcap on my exe, it will no longer make a core 
> unless I put in
> 
> prctl( PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 1 );
> 
> 
> Appropriate places to remark on this might be:
> 
> 
> man 5 core
>    in the paragraph starting "the process is executing a set-user-ID ..."
> 
> man 2 prctl
>    in the paragraph for PR_SET_DUMPABLE
> 
> man 8 setcap

Thanks for the report. I've add some text to both of these pages.

Cheers,

Michael


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