svn commit: r334543 - head/usr.bin/top

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.net
Mon Jun 4 04:56:02 UTC 2018


04.06.2018 4:33, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

>>>> Bad side effect of doing that is it is not hard to get a "core"
>>>> from top when run as a user, as it is going to try to write
>>>> to /, and it probably does not have permission for that.

We already have global sysctl kern.corefile that can be changed to /var/tmp/%N.core

Perhaps, a kernel could take a look to process environment to something like
KERN_COREFILE variable for an override of that sysctl?


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