Try to avoid generating a core dump in segfault Proc test #791
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The test intentionally triggers a segfault. Especially on developer's systems, this will create a core dump that will be listed by e.g.
coredumpctl list
which makes it harder to notice actual bug-related segfaults. We can avoid this by disabling core dumps for the process. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a portable way to do this. The only way to do this without changing the nature of the test (by e.g. running the process through a shell) is to use NativeCall again to callsetrlimit
On the bright side, if the setrlimit call fails (because e.g. it's not available on Windows), we do not need to care, as worst case we revert to the previous behaviour.