[2237] in testers
limit coredumpsize doesn't work reliably on Sun
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rptaurie@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jul 26 22:01:33 1993
From: rptaurie@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 93 22:01:23 EDT
To: testers@MIT.EDU
[Athena Workstation (sun4) Version 7.6F Thu Jul 22 23:39:53 EDT 1993]
Hi -
I noticed that if my cwd was in AFS (specifically, I tried my homedir
and /mit/potluck/sun4bin [because it's writable]), doing df ~ (or any
directory in AFS) would produce a floating exception and dump core
(which I guess is a minor bug in itself, since on other platforms it
just produces meaningless output). On the other hand, if my cwd was
in NFS (bitbucket) or UFS (/usr/tmp), the coredump would be limited to
512 bytes. I also tried it with my cwd in AFS, but writing to a
symlink into /usr/tmp; this worked as if I were in /usr/tmp.
However, when I made xload dump core by sending it a nasty signal, it
would ignore the limit on coredumpsize in UFSland and NFSland, too.
Rich
p.s. You might want to mention the existence of gyes in the outland
locker in that "Notes" thing.
