Re: [PATCH] coredump: fix pipe coredump when core limit is 0

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Sun Aug 21 2011 - 12:01:14 EST


On 08/21, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 08/21, bookjovi@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > For non-pipe case, limit 0 also means drop the coredump, so just put
> > the zero limit check at do_coredump function begining.
>
> Neil, what do you think? Should we change the code or the comment?

Personally I think we should fix the comment. I think RLIMIT_CORE
doesn't apply in this case, limit == 1 check is very special. And
this is what linux always did, except between 725eae32 and 898b374a.


Oleg.

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