check: Warn users with nonzero RLIMIT_CORE

src/etc/check-sanitycheck.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import os
+import sys
+import functools
+import resource
+
+STATUS = 0
+
+
+def error_unless_permitted(env_var, message):
+    global STATUS
+    if not os.getenv(env_var):
+        sys.stderr.write(message)
+        STATUS = 1
+
+
+def only_on(platforms):
+    def decorator(func):
+        @functools.wraps(func)
+        def inner():
+            if sys.platform in platforms:
+                func()
+        return inner
+    return decorator
+
+
+@only_on(('linux', 'darwin'))
+def check_rlimit_core():
+    soft, hard = resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_CORE)
+    if soft > 0:
+        error_unless_permitted('ALLOW_NONZERO_ULIMIT',
+          ("The rust test suite will segfault many rustc's in the debuginfo phase.\n"
+           "set ALLOW_NONZERO_ULIMIT to ignore this warning\n"))
+
+
+def main():
+    check_rlimit_core()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
+    sys.exit(STATUS)