Segmentation fault (solved ... sort of)

[Scott Stirling]

OK, that makes sense.  So let me ask, was it that the core dump wasn't
created? Or that the core dump couldn't be written to disk becuase of user
permissions?  I would guess the latter was the case.  Otherwise Mandrake
isn't much use for programmers on a multi-user system (unless everyone has
root, which is absurd).

Scott Stirling
West Newton, MA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Noyes" <maitre at ccs.neu.edu>

> Why didn't i get a core dump? Well i haven't been using Mandrake for very
long,
> only about a few weeks. I'm still getting used to it. I tried ulimit, and
it
> was set to unlimited. So that wasn't the problem. I then tried to run the
> program as super user (by accident, i didn't realize i was in su). And
then i
> got a core dump, which made me happy. After a few tests I concluded that
with
> Mandrake, only root, or super user can create core dumps.
>
> I've head of security exploits using a core dump. So i guess thats why
> Mandrake allows only root to create core dumps.
>
> Now i have to info to fix the problem I just have to figure out how to fix
the
> problem ...

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