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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] linux-user: do not avoid dumping of qemu it
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Paul Brook |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] linux-user: do not avoid dumping of qemu itself |
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Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:19:29 +0100 |
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> > [1] A host core dump may be useful for debugging qemu itself, but that's
> > a fairly specialized corner case, and not necessarily something we want
> > to be exposing to users.
>
> It would make sense to set RLIMIT_CORE to zero very early in
> qemu-user, and then someone debugging qemu-user can easily change
> RLIMIT_CORE from gdb while it is running.
Sounds reasonable, as long as you're careful to avoid breaking guest
applications that call {get,set}rlimit(RLIMIT_CORE).
Paul