I would like to collect coredumps from a C++ binary running inside a docker container in GitHub workflows in order to first print a backtrace immediately and second store it as an artifact (together with the binary) to debug later.

I have set:

ulimit -c unlimited

I’ve tried to set the path where core files are written:

/cores/core.%e.%p | /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern

 but it fails because this is read only.

Similarly, this doesn’t seem to have any effect:

sysctl -w kernel.core_pattern=core

In the default core dump location 

/usr/share/apport

is nothing to be found after a crash.

From reading about this my guess is that the docker container would have to run with

--privileged

in order to allow changing the path that but supposedly that’s not possible.