[vox-tech] when segfault doesn't produce core (and ulimit -c is unlimited)

Peter Jay Salzman vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sun, 8 Dec 2002 12:03:47 -0800


i just wasted 10 minutes of my time.

for the record, setuid root executables don't dump core when you're not
root, even when you have write access to the directory.

i don't know how that piece of trivia escaped me all these years, but it
seems to be true.

pete

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