On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 04:17:24PM +0100, Anthony Howe wrote: > > Simply referring to sysctl(3) doesn't help since the possible values > that kern.nosuidcoredump can be set to are not described there. I don't > think they're described in any man page. You either need to sift through > newsgroups, release notes, or read the source. >
sysctl(3): KERN_NOSUIDCOREDUMP Programs with their set-user-ID bit set will not dump core when this is set. The special value of 2 means that core dumps will be allowed, but placed in /var/crash. jmc