[systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFCv7] Optionally save core dumps as plain files

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 17:05 +0300, Oleksii Shevchuk wrote:

> For security reasons. It will be better if user will not have access to
> own cores by default (situation is the same with journal backend in
> upstream now).

Why?

> Yeah, I'll add some, if idea with temporary files will be accepted in
> general.

I hope so =)

> Cores rotation mechainsm or just avoiding to write new cores?

Probably configurable to either.  A nice default would be to, on space
pressure, keep only the latest crash per executable.

But at the moment, I guess what you have is not too bad because we at
least will honor quota for non-root users; my main concern was filling
up even the ext4 reserved space for example.