> There are userspace solutions to this problem: allowing the
> uncompressed core dump to spin out to disk and then coming in afterwards
> and doing the compression, or maybe even a compressed filesystem where
> the core dumps land, but I just thought I'd throw this out there since
> it seems it would be a useful feature :)
Indeed. So useful that in current kernels you can set the core dump path
to be
"|application"
and it will call out to the helper. Take care with the helper as it will
get run for setuid apps, roots core dumps etc.
Alan
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