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

[Otavio Salvador]

Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> writes:

> "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.

I ack on it. This is an option set by the admin and ought to be
respected.

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