From 0ac3f06fc9a68ba29cb213cc86a80d3a9ff4acca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:50:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] core.5: Note effect of madvise(2) MADV_DONTDUMP flag Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man5/core.5 | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man5/core.5 b/man5/core.5 index 97a18bec9..7beea7b26 100644 --- a/man5/core.5 +++ b/man5/core.5 @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" -.TH CORE 5 2012-01-17 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH CORE 5 2012-07-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME core \- core dump file .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -96,6 +96,12 @@ operation, and the description of the .\" and PR_SET_DUMPABLE to this page? file in .BR proc (5).) +.PP +In addition, +a core dump may exclude part of the address space of the process if the +.BR madvise (2) +.B MADV_DONTDUMP +flag was employed. .SS Naming of core dump files By default, a core dump file is named .IR core ,