On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 1999, Steffen Dettmer wrote:
>
> > > > ... somewhere in a core dump from httpd ...
> > > That's why most Unix platforms do not create core files for daemon processes
> > > running under or started as UID=0 (root).
> >
> > I thought that is "overrideable" using "ulimit -c 10000000" ?
>
> Perhaps, but AFAIK it's a hard-coded thing in some kernels.
> Wasn't Linux one of those kernels who had it hard-coded?
> I cannot remember...
Most "current" kernels do not allow a process to dump core after it
has done a setuid() (unless it does an exec()) for security reasons;
there can be privileged information left over in memory.
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