[10852] in Athena Bugs
Sun: limit coredumpsize 0 Broken in 2.1 fixed in 2.2.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Aug 30 13:03:09 1993
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 13:02:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
I just talked with Sun about the limit coredumpsize 0 problem.
It is fixed in Solaris 2.2.
Vrt and I have verified this on our 2.2 build machine.
Here is the log of the Bug report as it went through sun:
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 16:59:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: hotline@sun.com
Subject: limit coredumpsize 0 is ignored on Solaris 2.1
SEVERITY CODE: 3
SYNOPSIS: typing 'limit coredumpsize 0' fails to prevent a core dump
from being made.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION: The generic environment we give to naive users on
all our UNIX platforms does a
limit coredumpsize 0
On all other platforms, this prevents a coredump file from being made
which the user would not know what to do with, and which would clutter
up their home directory.
Under Solaris 2.1, this directive seems to be ignored. Core dump files
are still being created.
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30 August 1993 11:03 AM
SO #1368097 Callback from Joe at 508-794-5320
Fixed in 2.2.
Work-around: change s20 in syssetup and comment out lines
to disable all core dumps.
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Verified is fixed on Miki's machine.
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Looked up limit coredumpsize in sunsolve online.
Found mention of it but no fix announced.
(No date on problem report.)
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12:40 PM 20 Aug 1993
Wdc Called Joe. Thanked for bug fix info.
Thanked for work-around. Mentioned wouldn't help in our environ.
Mentioned that fix announcement was not in Sunsolve online.
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CLOSED.
