Nie, nie można ustawić na proces. Główny plik zostanie zrzucony do bieżącego katalogu roboczego procesu lub katalogu ustawionego w/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern, jeśli wzorzec zawiera katalog.
CoreDumpDirectory w apache jest hack, apache rejestruje programy obsługi sygnałów dla wszystkich sygnałów, które powodują zrzut rdzenia, i zmienia bieżący katalog w swojej procedurze obsługi sygnału.
/* handle all varieties of core dumping signals */
static void sig_coredump(int sig)
{
apr_filepath_set(ap_coredump_dir, pconf);
apr_signal(sig, SIG_DFL);
#if AP_ENABLE_EXCEPTION_HOOK
run_fatal_exception_hook(sig);
#endif
/* linuxthreads issue calling getpid() here:
* This comparison won't match if the crashing thread is
* some module's thread that runs in the parent process.
* The fallout, which is limited to linuxthreads:
* The special log message won't be written when such a
* thread in the parent causes the parent to crash.
*/
if (getpid() == parent_pid) {
ap_log_error(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_NOTICE,
0, ap_server_conf,
"seg fault or similar nasty error detected "
"in the parent process");
/* XXX we can probably add some rudimentary cleanup code here,
* like getting rid of the pid file. If any additional bad stuff
* happens, we are protected from recursive errors taking down the
* system since this function is no longer the signal handler GLA
*/
}
kill(getpid(), sig);
/* At this point we've got sig blocked, because we're still inside
* the signal handler. When we leave the signal handler it will
* be unblocked, and we'll take the signal... and coredump or whatever
* is appropriate for this particular Unix. In addition the parent
* will see the real signal we received -- whereas if we called
* abort() here, the parent would only see SIGABRT.
*/
}