2.2.19pre6/7: why can't I dump core?

Bernd wrote thusly:

|In article <[email protected]> you wrote: 
|> I've done a quick inspection of pre7 patch set and noticed about the 
|> same thing. Is this an oversight, did someone intentionally turn off 
|> core dumping until some other widget is incorporated into the
patches, 
|> or none of the above (a conspiracy, maybe? 8-). 
|
|what is ulimit -c telling you? 

I'm using csh, but limit tells me core size is something like 1Gb. In case the shell was confused, I also set coredumpsize to `unlimited', but got same result (elf_core_dump bails as current->dumpable == 0)

Thanks,
--rafal

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