From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763136AbXG2NE3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:04:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762210AbXG2NEE (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:04:04 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:55607 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761986AbXG2NEB (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:04:01 -0400 Message-ID: <46AC9017.7080109@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:03:19 +0800 From: Eugene Teo Organization: Red Hat, Inc User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070615) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Horman CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, jeremy@goop.org, martin.pitt@ubuntu.com, wwoods@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] core_pattern: ignore RLIMIT_CORE if core_pattern is a pipe References: <20070727200355.GB18946@hmsreliant.homelinux.net> In-Reply-To: <20070727200355.GB18946@hmsreliant.homelinux.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Neil Horman wrote: [...] > + * Don't bother to check the RLIMIT_CORE value if core_pattern points > + * to a pipe. Since we're not writing directly to the filesystem > + * RLIMIT_CORE doesn't really apply, as no actual core file will be > + * created unless the pipe reader choses to write out the core file > + * at which point file size limits and permissions will be imposed ^^^ Trailing space. Eugene