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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Moved core dump functionality into its own file
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 14:54:11 -0700
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:23:59 -0700
Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:

> This was done in preparation for making core dump functionality optional.
> 
> The variable "suid_dumpable" and associated functions are left in fs/exec.c
> because they're used elsewhere, such as in ptrace.

This patch will need to be redone and retested against the very latest
kernel.  Please do that shortly after 3.6-rc1 is released and resend.