Re: [PATCH 0/4] coredump: core dump masking support v2

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> >>>Can you make this a little more transparent?  Having a magic bitmask does
> >>>not seem like the best way to do stuff.  Could you maybe make a core_flags
> >>>directory with a seperate file for each flag.  It could still map to a
> >>>single field in the mm, but be broken out for the proc filesystem.
> >>
> >>It seems to be one of the good enhancement idea, thanks.:-)
> >>But currently, there is only one flag. So we had better keep this simple
> >>implementation until someone requests to add a new flag.
> > 
> > If that is the case, can we rename the file from core_flags to something
> > more descriptive like dump_core_skip_anonymous_mappings.  The name
> > is a wild suggestion, the renaming does seem fairly important to me.
> > Remember once you get this in, changing the name will be fairly difficult
> > as admin tools and documentation will adopt the name.  These are usually
> > cases where it is better to do it right the first time.
> 
> Okay, I'll adopt your idea in the next version.
> I'm going to provide the proc entry as follows:
> 
>   (1) /proc/<pid>/core_flags/flags
>   (2) /proc/<pid>/core_flags/omit_anon_shared
> 
> (1) is the same as current core_flags. It is for expert users.
> (2) corresponds to one bit in (1).
> If (2) is set to 1, anonymous shared memory of the process is never
> dumped.

Now, that's what I call an ugly interface.

Can we simply add ulimit with boolean value, that says dump
anon_shared... or not? It will be simpler and faster, because you'll
not need locking.
									Pavel
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