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From: Grigoriy Strokin <grg@isabase.philol.msu.ru>
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Subject: kern/14540: ulimit -c 0  and limits -c 0  no longer disable creating core dumps
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>Number:         14540
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       ulimit -c 0  and limits -c 0  no longer disable creating core dumps
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 26 03:30:00 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Grigoriy Strokin
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Moscow University
>Environment:

	/bin/sh or bash 2.03.0(1) as login shell

>Description:

	In older versions of FreeBSD one might use ulimit -c 0 to
  disable creation of core files.
  Now neither ulimit -c 0  nor  limits -B -c 0  don't do what is expected:
  the core dumps are created, though of zero size.

   However, man limits says:
     example, if you wish to disable core dumps when starting up
     the usenet news system, but wish to set all other resource
     settings as well that apply to the 'news' account, you might
     use:

           eval `limits -U news -aBec 0`


>How-To-Repeat:

	ulimit -c 0; limits -B -c 0; cat; [press Ctrl-\]

Result: the file cat.core will be created.

>Fix:
	
	


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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