[Dovecot] problems with dotlock

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mar 2, 2009, at 8:22 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Mar 2, 2009, at 7:32 PM, Mark Hedges wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>> I was rather thinking that maybe the kernel doesn't want
>>> to write core files to directories that are writable by
>>> everyone.
>>
>> Could it be that dovecot uses setuid to change permissions?
>> Application would need 'prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 1);'
>
> Interesting. I hadn't known about this before. I'll definitely look  
> into this and enable it if it appears to work.


Done, also improved logging:

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/6e9ca7f7e2a1