RFR(XXS): 8224793: os::die() does not honor CreateCoredumpOnCrash option

[Kim Barrett]

> On May 29, 2019, at 10:27 AM, Daniel D. Daugherty <daniel.daugherty at oracle.com> wrote:
>> SIGABRT (signaled by ::abort) has a default action of Core, which is
>> the reason for the current behavior.  (And ::abort will invoke that
>> action if the installed action returns rather than terminating the
>> process.)
> 
> When I researched the man pages (macOS, Solaris and Ubuntu) for this bug,
> I found that only the Solaris abort(3c) man page mentioned the possibility
> of abort() generating a core file. It seems that the other platforms are
> depending on other man pages to describe the result of SIGABRT. Sigh…

In case you haven’t already found it, signal(7) is the appropriate Linux man page.