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  1. Bug #69807
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 69807

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Micah Cowan (micahcowan) wrote :

A patch has been submitted against the kernel. See bug 69807, of which this bug is a duplicate. Further communications should possibly go to that bug instead.
Workarounds would include writing a wrapper program that sets the signal handler for SIGXFSZ to SIG_IGN.

Note that the kernel patch only eliminates the core-dumping signal: the write() command will still fail in the same circumstances: the difference is that it will return EFBIG instead of catching SIGXFSZ and dumping core. :) This allows things like multi-file copies to continue copying the rest of the files.