Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:48:32 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH-2.4] allow core files bigger than 2GB |
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On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 08:09:53AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > 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).
Thanks for notifying us about this Arjan. I've checked in RHEL patches and found that this is done in 2.4.21-binfmt-elf.patch with a detailed explanation. The patch is rather large, not to say invasive. I believe it serves other purposes but it seems to me that it will still be invasive enough not to be merged into 2.4 mainline right now.
> Greetings, > Arjan van de Ven
Regards, Willy
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