Messages in this thread | | | From | CaT <> | Subject | Re: Directory name problem... | Date | Wed, 28 Oct 1998 18:22:38 +1100 (EST) |
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Mike A. Harris wrote the following: > > What's more is that someone may have a *legitimate* "core" file > that is in fact a real core file, that they ARE USING, or ARE > WANTING TO ANALYZE with gdb. This could for example be the core > file of a program that cores once every 18 days or so... > Certainly the person isn't going to be very pleased to wait > another 18 days to get another corefile to examine. How then do > you propose to remove THESE core files? Someone has proposed > checking the atime on the file. What if joe programmer is on a > month's holidays? A lot of other what-if's come up too.
Speaking as someone who has a command in his .bash_profile to turn corefiles back ON I have to say Halleluyah Brother! :)
You should not be going around deciding what a user calls their files and what files in their $HOME the user finds useful. YOU may not think it's useful to the user but your opinion matters nil in this respect.
Also, I don't know if other shells have this but as a bash user I have access to a command called ulimit. Why not set that globally in /etc/profile but before it's set it should check for the existance of some file in the users directory (say... .wantcore) and if it exists to not set the limit of corefile size to 0.
Anyhow, this thread, at best, belongs in linux-admin or linux-newbie and not linux-kernel. Can we like... move it there from now on?
Please?
And that's my 2 furballs worth.
-- CaT (cat@zip.net.au) URL: http://www.zip.com.au/dev/null
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