Disabling program core dumps

[Willem Jan Withagen]

On 27-4-2017 14:57, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 02:36:52PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Running (googletest) tests some are expected to die: EXPECT_DEATH().
>> This normally dumps a core, but since it is expected that core is rather
>> useless.
>>
>> Thusfar I've found the best way to limit a program to dump core (from
>> within the program) is to set its RLIMIT_CORE to 0.
>>
>> So I can do this before the test, and then set the old size back once
>> the test is finished.
>>
>> Or is there another way, like setting a flag in process state (which I
>> have not been able to find)

> See procctl(2) PROC_TRACE_CTL command.  Disabling tracing also disables
> coredumping.

Ah, that I did not find. Found procctl, but browsed thru it looking for
coredump, but it is wrapped over 2 lines :)

So setting PROC_TRACE_CTL_DISABLE_EXEC would work with googletests which
fork to actually run the DEATH tests??

--WjW