From ae06adb134244369fb88e13c5cf81f7d495f5943 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nikola=20Forr=C3=B3?= Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 16:27:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/6] core.5: RLIMIT_CORE is not enforced when piping core dump to a program --- man-pages/man5/core.5 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/man-pages/man5/core.5 b/man-pages/man5/core.5 index e1f1373..59756b8 100644 --- a/man-pages/man5/core.5 +++ b/man-pages/man5/core.5 @@ -218,6 +218,11 @@ the % specifiers listed above. For example, to pass the PID of the process that is being dumped, specify .I %p in an argument. +.IP * +The +.B RLIMIT_CORE +limit is not enforced for core dumps that are piped to a program +via this mechanism. .SS Controlling which mappings are written to the core dump Since kernel 2.6.23, the Linux-specific .IR /proc/PID/coredump_filter -- 2.21.0