This is a patch to v0.51 that introduces a new configure time option ALLOW_COREDUMPS to allow coredumps from processes started via dropbear server (and client)
It conditionally rolls back a change introduced around version 0.49 In some environments, coredumps are a very useful debugging tool. Brent Roman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mbari.org/~brent --- dropbear-0.51-original/dbutil.c 2008-10-27 15:31:08.000000000 -0700 +++ dropbear-0.51/dbutil.c 2008-10-27 15:38:01.000000000 -0700 @@ -694,8 +694,10 @@ TRACE(("leave setnonblocking")) } +#ifndef ALLOW_COREDUMPS void disallow_core() { struct rlimit lim; lim.rlim_cur = lim.rlim_max = 0; setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, &lim); } +#endif --- dropbear-0.51-original/dbutil.h 2008-10-27 17:32:04.000000000 -0700 +++ dropbear-0.51/dbutil.h 2008-10-27 17:32:43.000000000 -0700 @@ -63,7 +63,13 @@ void __m_free(void* ptr); void m_burn(void* data, unsigned int len); void setnonblocking(int fd); + +#ifdef ALLOW_COREDUMPS +#define disallow_core() +#else void disallow_core(); +#endif + /* Used to force mp_ints to be initialised */ #define DEF_MP_INT(X) mp_int X = {0, 0, 0, NULL}
