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| author | James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> | 2006-11-22 12:06:44 -0600 |
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| committer | James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> | 2006-11-22 12:06:44 -0600 |
| commit | 0bd2af46839ad6262d25714a6ec0365db9d6b98f (patch) | |
| tree | dcced72d230d69fd0c5816ac6dd03ab84799a93e /Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | |
| parent | e138a5d2356729b8752e88520cc1525fae9794ac (diff) | |
| parent | f26b90440cd74c78fe10c9bd5160809704a9627c (diff) | |
Merge ../scsi-rc-fixes-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 89bf8c20a586..0bc7f1e3c9e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ valid for 30 seconds. core_pattern: core_pattern is used to specify a core dumpfile pattern name. -. max length 64 characters; default value is "core" +. max length 128 characters; default value is "core" . core_pattern is used as a pattern template for the output filename; certain string patterns (beginning with '%') are substituted with their actual values. @@ -105,6 +105,9 @@ core_pattern is used to specify a core dumpfile pattern name. %h hostname %e executable filename %<OTHER> both are dropped +. If the first character of the pattern is a '|', the kernel will treat + the rest of the pattern as a command to run. The core dump will be + written to the standard input of that program instead of to a file. ============================================================== |