Re: [exim] Exim drops core size

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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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To: Jörg Sommer
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim drops core size

On 29 Mar 2009, at 10:06, Jörg Sommer wrote:

> That's not a debugging feature. It's a resource limit Exim
> manipulates.
> There's no reason why Exim should change this limit.



Exim runs setuid root. Dropping core (while never a good thing) is a
security issue for setuid root programs. Thus it is disabled.

    Nigel.


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