From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751098AbWFRGKD (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jun 2006 02:10:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751099AbWFRGKD (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jun 2006 02:10:03 -0400 Received: from vbn.0050556.lodgenet.net ([216.142.194.234]:63674 "EHLO vbn.0050556.lodgenet.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751098AbWFRGKB (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jun 2006 02:10:01 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH-2.4] allow core files bigger than 2GB From: Arjan van de Ven To: Willy Tarreau Cc: marcelo@kvack.org, jolivares@gigablast.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060617214507.GA1213@1wt.eu> References: <20060617214507.GA1213@1wt.eu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:09:53 +0200 Message-Id: <1150610993.3117.2.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 23:45 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Marcelo, > > I think I have not sent you this one. It looks valid to me. > I can queue it in -upstream if you prefer to pull everything > at once. Hi, This is a rather complex issue, to the point that your patch is not sufficient actually. While it will create a core file, it's not really a good one, and there are some nasty other issues with it (esp on 64 bit systems). The enterprise distro kernels have a more complete patch for this (I'm pretty sure both RH and SUSE have fundamentally the same patch for this), if you really want this functionality I suggest getting the patch from either of those distros to get the full thing (there's some security angle to this even iirc). Greetings, Arjan van de Ven