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SubjectRe: core files (was Re: 2.1.131: some quality thoughts)
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"Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> said:

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> Long term, I think the whole core file idea needs to be tossed in
> favor of just starting a debugger.

Obviously also paging the party responsible for the crashed program. Using
some random vt for the task when a daemon crashes, too, I suppose?

You can take the corefile and examine it at leisure on another (bigger/not
so busy/whatever) machine. That is a big plus in my book.
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