Re: [PATCH-2.4] allow core files bigger than 2GB

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 23:45 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Marcelo,
> 
> I think I have not sent you this one. It looks valid to me.
> I can queue it in -upstream if you prefer to pull everything
> at once.


Hi,

This is a rather complex issue, to the point that your patch is not
sufficient actually. While it will create a core file, it's not really a
good one, and there are some nasty other issues with it (esp on 64 bit
systems). The enterprise distro kernels have a more complete patch for
this (I'm pretty sure both RH and SUSE have fundamentally the same patch
for this), if you really want this functionality I suggest getting the
patch from either of those distros to get the full thing (there's some
security angle to this even iirc).

Greetings, 
   Arjan van de Ven

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