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[RFC] Warn about truncated core dumps.

From: "Paul Pluzhnikov" <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>
To: binutils at sourceware dot org
Cc: "Doug Evans" <dje at google dot com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 15:50:14 -0700
Subject: [RFC] Warn about truncated core dumps.

Greetings,

We have many users with truncated core dumps (due to too low 'ulimit -c').
Attempts to debug such core dumps with GDB lead to "GDB doesn't work" claims :-(

We are also not alone:
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2004-03/msg00160.html

Attached patch warns about truncated ELF core dumps.

-- 
Paul Pluzhnikov

2008-05-07  Paul Pluzhnikov  <ppluzhnikov@google.com>

	* elfcore.h (elf_core_file_p): Warn about core truncation.

Attachment: patch.txt
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