chcorefilter

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:32:50PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
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 > The /proc/PID/coredump_filter mechanism makes it easy to tweak the
 > per-process setting to control ELF core dump style details.  
 > This setting is per-process (per-mm) and inherited by children.
 > 
 > But as a user, the /proc interface is insane.  It prints a magical hex
 > value (without a leading 0x, to make it sneaky), which you'll be damn lucky
 > to figure out from reading Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.  Then you
 > get to set it to another such magical value, which is in decimal unless you
 > add a leading 0x (cat /proc/x/coredump_filter > /proc/y/coredump_filter
 > does not copy the setting, go team).
 > 
 > I have kicking around this half-assed bash script that I don't care to
 > bother making really presentable.  Where should it live?  In the upstream
 > kernel's scripts/?  (Then noone would ever see it for sure.)  
 > In util-linux-ng?  Or what?  Someone want to take it off my hands?
 
either util-linux or procps is my suggestion.

	Dave

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