4 files changed, 39 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tests/nixos/coredumps/default.nix b/tests/nixos/coredumps/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3d0d62945
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/nixos/coredumps/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+let
+  inherit (import ../util.nix) mkNixBuildTest;
+in mkNixBuildTest rec {
+  name = "coredumps";
+  extraMachineConfig = { pkgs, ... }: {
+    boot.kernel.sysctl."kernel.core_pattern" = "core";
+  };
+
+  expressionFile = ./package.nix;
+
+  testScriptPost = ''
+    # do a test, but this time with coredumps enabled.
+    machine.succeed('nix-build --option enable-core-dumps true --expr "let pkgs = import <nixpkgs> {}; in pkgs.callPackage ${expressionFile} { shouldBePresent = true; }"')
+  '';
+}
diff --git a/tests/nixos/coredumps/package.nix b/tests/nixos/coredumps/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a7f6434ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/nixos/coredumps/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{ lib, runCommand, shouldBePresent ? false }:
+
+runCommand "core-dump-now" { } ''
+  set -m
+  sleep infinity &
+
+  # make a coredump
+  kill -SIGSEGV %1
+
+  if ${lib.optionalString (shouldBePresent) "!"} test -n "$(find . -maxdepth 1 -name 'core*' -print -quit)"; then
+    echo "core file was in wrong presence state, expected: ${if shouldBePresent then "present" else "missing"}"
+    exit 1
+  fi
+
+  touch $out
+''
diff --git a/tests/nixos/default.nix b/tests/nixos/default.nix
index 987463b07..9dd888916 100644
--- a/tests/nixos/default.nix
+++ b/tests/nixos/default.nix
@@ -166,4 +166,6 @@ in
   rootInSandbox = runNixOSTestFor "x86_64-linux" ./root-in-sandbox;
 
   broken-userns = runNixOSTestFor "x86_64-linux" ./broken-userns.nix;
+
+  coredumps = runNixOSTestFor "x86_64-linux" ./coredumps;
 }
diff --git a/tests/nixos/util.nix b/tests/nixos/util.nix
index 0c51cc075..1b8b4223c 100644
--- a/tests/nixos/util.nix
+++ b/tests/nixos/util.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {
-  mkNixBuildTest = { name, expressionFile, extraMachineConfig ? {} }:
+  mkNixBuildTest =
+    { name, expressionFile, extraMachineConfig ? {}, testScriptPre ? "", testScriptPost ? "" }:
     { lib, pkgs, ... }:
     {
       inherit name;
@@ -17,7 +18,11 @@
       testScript = { nodes }: ''
         start_all()
 
+        ${testScriptPre}
+
         machine.succeed('nix-build --expr "let pkgs = import <nixpkgs> {}; in pkgs.callPackage ${expressionFile} {}"')
+
+        ${testScriptPost}
       '';
     };
 }