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Re: netscape coredump can cause IRIX panic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Thu Jan 30 12:34:47 2003
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To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:34:40 -0500
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> Now that limitting the coredumpsize to 0 is part of the default
> dotfiles, can we please remove it from the mozilla and netscape
> scripts? Some of us would like to get core dumps and it's annoying
> that "unlimit coredumpsize" is insufficient, instead one must use a
> custom mozilla wrapper.
IIRC, this was added to the netscape wrapper because invoking the
program via attachandrun (then a setuid program) would reset limits
to the defaults, at least on IRIX, thus overriding our dotfiles.
Since (as of 8.4) attachandrun is no longer a setuid program, this
should no longer be an issue, so there should be no harm in removing
this limit. If no one objects, I will make this change soon to the
mozilla wrapper; I don't think it's worth the bother to change the
netscape wrapper.
Bob
