android kernel ignores /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern

[Evan]

There does not appear to be a way to force a core dump in the android kernels used on the touch images.

I've tried (via a custom initrd) killing debuggerd, setting the core limit to unlimited, and setting the core pipe appropriately, but this had absolutely no effect. Neither "core", nor "/data/core.%e.%p", nor "|/path/to/apport" work.

I've sent SIGSEGV and SIGABRT to processes. They obviously die, but there's no "(core dumped)" message or dump to match. Running gcore on `sleep inf` does work though.

[Evan (ev)]

For what it's worth, this is a Nexus 7.