On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 04:17:24PM +0100, Anthony Howe wrote:
>
> Simply referring to sysctl(3) doesn't help since the possible values
> that kern.nosuidcoredump can be set to are not described there. I don't
> think they're described in any man page. You either need to sift through
> newsgroups, release notes, or read the source.
>
sysctl(3):
KERN_NOSUIDCOREDUMP
Programs with their set-user-ID bit set will not dump core
when this is set. The special value of 2 means that core
dumps will be allowed, but placed in /var/crash.
jmc
