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Bug#818336: linux-image-4.3.0-1-amd64: `ulimit -c` not respected when kernel.core_pattern is a pipe



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On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 21:48 -0700, Ben Longbons wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 4.3.5-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> When the sysctl option kernel.core_pattern is a pipe (for example, the
> default configuration on systemd-based systems), then `ulimit -c` is not
> respected.
[...]

This behaviour is intentional.  The command handling core dumps can
apply a more sophisticated policy.  Maybe the kernel should tell it
what the task's limit is, though.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do.

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