From d13a7457bd7276a29b02b0cb9b00c363dafcb0e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Klaus Schmidinger Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 12:58:59 +0100 Subject: Enabled generating a core dump if VDR is run with a different user id --- vdr.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'vdr.c') diff --git a/vdr.c b/vdr.c index 4a405bfb..5e17a37d 100644 --- a/vdr.c +++ b/vdr.c @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ * * The project's page is at http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr * - * $Id: vdr.c 1.248 2006/02/04 14:49:12 kls Exp $ + * $Id: vdr.c 1.249 2006/02/05 12:57:10 kls Exp $ */ #include @@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ static bool SetUser(const char *UserName) fprintf(stderr, "vdr: cannot set user id %u: %s\n", (unsigned int)user->pw_uid, strerror(errno)); return false; } + if (prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 2, 0, 0, 0) < 0) { + fprintf(stderr, "vdr: warning - cannot set dumpable: %s\n", strerror(errno)); + // always non-fatal, and will not work with kernel < 2.6.13 + } } return true; } -- cgit v1.2.3