On 6/28/19 10:17 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 28/06/19 09:59, samc...@amazon.com wrote: >>> Surely if it's important to generate core dumps, it's not only important >>> during installation, no? >> Yep... missed this. I'll move it to run.sh right before alf-many is >> invoked. It would be nice to not have to sudo but it seems the only >> alternative is an envvar AFL_I_DONT_CARE_ABOUT_MISSING_CRASHES which >> just ignores AFL's warning if your system isn't going to produce core >> dumps (which will cause AFL to miss some crashes, as the name suggests). > > Can you do this only if /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern starts with a pipe > sign? >
I think I'll just remove the `echo > ...core_pattern` step from both the build.sh and run.sh scripts and instead document it as a setup step in the README. This also sidesteps the sudo use. - Sam > Thanks, > > Paolo >