> This is easy to test: > > (a) coredump processing (we're using socat): > > > cat coredump_socket.sh > #!/bin/bash > > set -x > > sudo bash -c "echo ':/tmp/stream.sock' > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern" > socat --statistics unix-listen:/tmp/stream.sock,fork FILE:core_file,create,append,truncate Don't use "truncate" please. It's not a socat option and it won't work. The correct option is "trunc".