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authorvan Hauser <vh@thc.org>2024-08-22 18:30:28 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2024-08-22 18:30:28 +0200
commit30df52cd8ccd6c4bea05932c8d59875872b04812 (patch)
tree9e5cacb57ca39b7a428d22fb999e2e2f54040b29 /src
parent097828391530c7858ba80024d69c4efdad2e2fb2 (diff)
parentd7c99007ffda6846df85da79f55be7522d34b12a (diff)
downloadafl++-30df52cd8ccd6c4bea05932c8d59875872b04812.tar.gz
Merge pull request #2193 from ncoghlan/core-dump-notice-rewording
Offer more explicit core dump handling tip
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/afl-fuzz-init.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/src/afl-fuzz-init.c b/src/afl-fuzz-init.c
index 4f366b0d..10951300 100644
--- a/src/afl-fuzz-init.c
+++ b/src/afl-fuzz-init.c
@@ -2443,20 +2443,19 @@ void check_crash_handling(void) {
SAYF(
"\n" cLRD "[-] " cRST
- "Hmm, your system is configured to send core dump notifications to an\n"
+ "Your system is configured to send core dump notifications to an\n"
" external utility. This will cause issues: there will be an "
"extended delay\n"
" between stumbling upon a crash and having this information "
"relayed to the\n"
" fuzzer via the standard waitpid() API.\n"
- " If you're just testing, set "
+ " If you're just experimenting, set "
"'AFL_I_DONT_CARE_ABOUT_MISSING_CRASHES=1'.\n\n"
- " To avoid having crashes misinterpreted as timeouts, please log in "
- "as root\n"
- " and temporarily modify /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern, like so:\n\n"
+ " To avoid having crashes misinterpreted as timeouts, please \n"
+ " temporarily modify /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern, like so:\n\n"
- " echo core >/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern\n");
+ " echo core | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern\n");
if (!getenv("AFL_I_DONT_CARE_ABOUT_MISSING_CRASHES")) {