Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Apr 2006 18:15:19 -0400 | From | Daniel Jacobowitz <> | Subject | Re: fs/binfmt_elf.c:maydump() |
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On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:03:57PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > Yes, this means we might hit the core dump limits quicker but we > shouldn't be doing anything which makes less debugging information > than necessary available. Software development is hard enough as > it is right? :)
> - /* If it hasn't been written to, don't write it out */ > - if (!vma->anon_vma) > - return 0; > -
Isn't this, um, a little more extreme than what you really want? What goes into coredumps with this patch applied? I bet it includes the complete text segments of every executable and shared library involved in the link. You're going to need those if you want to debug, anyway.
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