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Date:      Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:48:45 +0100
From:      Edward Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org>
To:        Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Disabling program core dumps
Message-ID:  <CAFLM3-pjR_wDVnjuUhZmtnaWvAX4SGvVbYhYAp-02148oUtv8A@mail.gmail.com>
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There's the kern.coredump sysctl, which makes it possible to disable
coredumping globally.

2017-04-27 13:36 GMT+01:00 Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>:

> Hi,
>
> Running (googletest) tests some are expected to die: EXPECT_DEATH().
> This normally dumps a core, but since it is expected that core is rather
> useless.
>
> Thusfar I've found the best way to limit a program to dump core (from
> within the program) is to set its RLIMIT_CORE to 0.
>
> So I can do this before the test, and then set the old size back once
> the test is finished.
>
> Or is there another way, like setting a flag in process state (which I
> have not been able to find)
>
> --WjW
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