From 97839a765d584aa4c46a1917f142915c91a9d61b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 22:25:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] core.5: RLIMIT_CORE is not enforced when piping core dump to a program MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reported-by: Per Böhlin Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man5/core.5 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/man5/core.5 b/man5/core.5 index 799596b49..5a57c8b7a 100644 --- a/man5/core.5 +++ b/man5/core.5 @@ -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,