core.5: RLIMIT_CORE is not enforced when piping core dump to a program

Reported-by: Per Böhlin <Per.Bohlin@zenterio.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2017-10-09 22:25:05 +02:00
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@ -291,6 +291,11 @@ specifier to change to the location of the dumping process via
Command-line arguments can be supplied to the
program (since Linux 2.6.24),
delimited by white space (up to a total line length of 128 bytes).
.IP *
The
.B RLIMIT_CORE
limit is not enforced for core dumps that are piped to a program
via this mechanism.
.\"
.SS /proc/sys/kernel/core_pipe_limit
When collecting core dumps via a pipe to a user-space program,