> > > On 2001.01.12 OS wrote: > > Hello, > > > > A colleague at work was bemoaning the fact that when an application > > crashes on Solaris you always get a core file dumped but with Linux it > > appears to completely hit and miss. A program that was core dumping > > before a very minor change will just stop core dumping. I said I would > > ask around a bit to try and find out what's what. > > > > Does anyone know the rules for core dumping under Linux ? > > > man 7 signal > > Also lookup 'ulimit' in man bash, this controls core dumpin per user. > > -- > J.A. Magallon $> cd pub IIRC the people at MS have set the system up sothat only root would get a core-dump. The reasonning behind that was something like root should know what to do with a core dump but the normal user(not you naturally :) ) not. And the normal users who could use it would know how to make normal users core-dump.
