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Subject: Re: [suse-security] kcore
From: Roman Drahtmueller (drahtsuse.de)
Date: Fri Oct 13 2000 - 17:31:28 CDT

> from /proc/:
>
> -r-------- 1 root root 50335744 Oct 13 17:31 kcore
>
> Is this a deletable kernel core file, or a mandatory proc entry?

It is the kernel core image and belongs there. unlink() (deletion)
is not supported in 2.2 kernels. It wouldn't make sense anyway, since no
file under /proc allocates disk space, provided that the proc filesystem
is mounted. :-)

Roman. 

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