Hello Per, On 10/09/2017 05:22 PM, Per Böhlin wrote: > The man page for coredumps: > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/core.5.html > > In section: Piping core dumps to a program > should probably have a bullet explaining that the size limit > imposed by ulimit -c does not apply when using the> pipe-mechanism. Thanks. From my reading of the kernel source, I agree. I added the following text to the page: * The RLIMIT_CORE limit is not enforced for core dumps that are piped to a program via this mechanism. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
