On 2023-09-13, Eric Wong <[email protected]> wrote: > Theo de Raadt wrote: >> There isn't a way. And I will argue there shouldn't be a way to do that. >> I don't see a need to invent such a scheme for one user, when half a century >> of Unix has no way to do this. >> Sorry. > > I have a different use case than Johannes but looking for a similar feature. > Maybe I can convince you :> > > For background, I develop multi-process daemons and OpenBSD is > the only platform I'm noticing segfaults on[1]. > > The lack of PIDs in the core filenames means they can get > clobbered in parallel scenarios and I lose useful information. > > Sometimes, daemons run in / (or another unwritable directory); > and the core dump can't get written, at all.
If the daemons are changing uid, read about kern.nosuidcoredump in sysctl(8) (set the sysctl, mkdir /var/crash/progname, and it will write to $pid.core). -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
