core.5: Clarify that RLIMIT_CORE is ignored when piping.

PATCH New Alejandro Colomar 1 participant 1 message Dec 11, 2022 Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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PATCH 1/1 core.5: Clarify that RLIMIT_CORE is ignored when piping.

Reported-by Luca Versari <[email protected]>

Closes <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216648>

Signed-off-by Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]>

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 man5/core.5 | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

man5/core.5 +3 -0

index be9753250..a354c5a4f 100644
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION
 .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.

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