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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2022-12-11 18:24:55 +0100
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2022-12-12 12:26:57 +0100
commit0354e3389903f63274a00709b0ff43abd80fbf61 (patch)
treef6ff79bd5384b6f0958604400b5c10bee1568cf6
parentef7434ef53ee3b40a70e72a4e3814bcf6721dd09 (diff)
core.5: Clarify that RLIMIT_CORE is ignored when piping.
Reported-by: Luca Versari <veluca93@gmail.com> Closes: <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216648> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--man5/core.53
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man5/core.5 b/man5/core.5
index be9753250..a354c5a4f 100644
--- a/man5/core.5
+++ b/man5/core.5
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ command
.RI ( limit
in
.BR csh (1)).
+However,
+.B RLIMIT_CORE
+will be ignored if the system is configured to pipe core dumps to a program.
.IP \(bu
The binary being executed by the process does not have read
permission enabled.