Re: Need advice with gridengine 6.2 and "libcore"

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:16:21AM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Apparently it is an issue with setuid/setgid binaries.  I haven't really 
> confirmed the problem myself.

setuid apps don't core dump by default. The reason for that is that they
might dump useful data in the core (like say /etc/shadow)

An app on Linux can actually say "hey I want to core dump anyway" and use
prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 1);

Alan