Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: FVWM taskbar segfault on ~amd64

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 01:55:28AM +0000, Duncan wrote:
> felix@×××××××.com posted 20080229170308.GA6121@×××××××.com, excerpted
> below, on  Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:03:08 -0800:
>
> > Now I feel like some dinosaurish fool here.  I cannot get a core dump.
> > ulimit -c 90000 or -c 1 or -c unlimited tells me
> >
> > -bash: ulimit: core file size: cannot modify limit: Operation not
> > permitted
> >
> > Setting ulimit in /etc/profile doesn't give me a core dump, in $HOME or
> > /tmp or anywhere that I can find.  Bash's help ulimit says nothing about
> > this.  I can't find anything in /etc/sysctl.conf which disables core
> > files.  Changing /etc/security/limits.conf didn't help.
>
> You probably checked it but if you mentioned it I missed it.  Does your
> kernel include corefile functionality?  I have that option turned
> entirely off, here.  If likewise there, that might explain not being
> able to turn it on from user mode.

I hadn't remembered there was such a kernel option, but I just checked
and CONFIG_ELF_CORE is set.

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