avoid core dumps from reconfig mode when edd probe fails

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/edd/pyedd.c b/edd/pyedd.c
index 01492a9ac..75aa98854 100644
--- a/edd/pyedd.c
+++ b/edd/pyedd.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include "edd.h"
 
 #include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <sys/resource.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 
 #include <Python.h>
@@ -43,6 +44,12 @@ edd_py_detect (PyObject * s, PyObject * args) {
      The child returns 1 if edd works, and 0 if it doesn't. */
 
   if (!(childpid = fork())) {
+      /* lets not drop core file if we do segv */
+      struct rlimit lims;
+
+      lims.rlim_cur = 0;
+      setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, &lims);
+
       if ((ec = edd_supported(device))) {
 	free (ec);
 	_exit(1);