disable_core_dumps() and -q

Sam Roberts sroberts@uniserve.com
Sun, 2 Apr 2000 09:17:32 -0400


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Well, any thoughts?

On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:23:15PM -0500, sroberts wrote:
> =20
>  disable_core_dumps() appears to want to honor opt.quiet, and not whine if
>  --quiet was specified, but at least the first call doesn't.
> =20
>  It's called before options are parsed, currently, so even gpg --help
>  gives the warning. Would it be ok to move it's call to after options
>  are parsed? It doesn't look to be a security problem, since no passwords
>  are read in during options parsing, and the options are visible from
>  ps listings anyhow (at least to those with permissions to see your
>  core files, I'd guess).
> =20
>  It's quite annoying to me, and I can just chop the warning out, but...
> =20

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Sam Roberts, sroberts at uniserve dot com, www.emyr.net/Sam

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