[PATCH] Enable coredumps > 2GB
From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Some x86-64 users were complaining that coredumps >2GB don't work. This will enable large coredump for everybody. Apparently the 32bit gdb/binutils cannot handle them, but I hear the binutils people are working on fixing that. I doubt it will harm people - unreadable coredumps are not worse than no coredump and it won't make any difference in space usage if you get a 1.99GB or a 2.5GB coredump. So just enable it unconditionally. If it should be really a problem for 32bit the rlimit defaults in resource.h could be changed. For file systems that don't support O_LARGEFILE you should just get an truncated coredumps for big address spaces.
Showing
Please register or sign in to comment