If a user space program opened a file in the tmpfs, then the program will not core dump upon abort()
This small program could reproduce this: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/test.c ./test /tmpfsroot/file Abort [No core dump here, the test.core size is 0] ./test /otherfs/file Abort (core dumped) [Core dump is correctly generated] kernel is @a1fa5d8d095e6aa52c4a9ac5d2ab52b03fee54b9 Best Regards, sephe -- Tomorrow Will Never Die