Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] linux-user: do not avoid dumping of qemu itself

[Jamie Lokier]

Paul Brook wrote:
> > > [1] A host core dump may be useful for debugging qemu itself, but that's
> > > a fairly specialized corner case, and not necessarily something we want
> > > to be exposing to users.
> >
> > It would make sense to set RLIMIT_CORE to zero very early in
> > qemu-user, and then someone debugging qemu-user can easily change
> > RLIMIT_CORE from gdb while it is running.
> 
> Sounds reasonable, as long as you're careful to avoid breaking guest 
> applications that call {get,set}rlimit(RLIMIT_CORE).

They should not be sent to the host, but affect guest core dumping
instead.  (Um, probably).

-- Jamie