[parted-devel] [PATCH] Enable full memory dump

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Sat Sep 15 12:00:20 UTC 2007


"Frodo Baggins" <frodo.drogo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> On 9/12/07, Frodo Baggins <frodo.drogo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From b8866155b7b9aed4c3035f3aeff8662e4c785e92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Frodo Baggins <frodo.drogo at gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:11:37 +0530
>> Subject: [PATCH] Enable full memory dump
>>
>> If user is root, we can remove the limit on core dump size. This may
>> make it easier to debug dumps.
>> The old limit is saved and restored at exit via atexit(3).

Tools should not override settings I make in my shell.
I.e., if I say I never want a core dump larger than X bytes,
I'd be very upset if parted were to override that and
create one regardless.



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