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@@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ yielding the traditional
.Fx
behaviour.
.Pp
+By default, a process that changes user or group credentials whether
+real or effective will not create a corefile. This behaviour can be
+changed to generate a core dump by setting the
+.Xr sysctl 8
+variable
+.Va kern.sugid_coredump
+to 1.
+.Pp
The core file consists of the
.Fa u .
area, whose size (in pages) is
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