Re: wierd new config options

From: Roland McGrath
Date: Tue Nov 11 2008 - 05:26:36 EST


> CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS is similarly odd, it turns something on
> that break old userspace, this really really should be a sysctl to turn
> on instead of a config option.

Both the kconfig help text and the commit's log mention that this is
controlled per-process via /proc/PID/coredump_filter. The new config
option only changes the boot-time default value to be inherited.


Thanks,
Roland
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