On Mon, 8 Sep 1997 22:11:28 +0200 (MET DST) 
 Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de> wrote:

 > On the other hand, a process' enviroment includes more then what
 > environ points to.  E.g. file descriptors and signal settings.
 > 
 > I'm just trying to push this idea to its (reasonable) limits.

I think a reasonable solution might be:

	- New sysctl level: kern.coredumpdir

		- .enabled
		- .dir
		- .format

	- Kernel compile options to set the defaults.

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