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Testing if core dumps are enabled correctly

The problem

Core dumps are extremely useful for debugging purposes. However, it is often non-trivial to enable them as many production systems require twiddling with some configuration options to get core dumps working (most notably, the kernel.core_pattern sysctl, and the core file size setable with ulimit -c \<some value …

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