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From"Johan Kullstam" <>
SubjectRe: 'core' (patch)
Date12 Feb 2000 13:18:34 -0500
willy@thepuffingroup.com writes:

> On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 11:22:51AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > - rm -f core `find . -type f -name 'core' -print`
> > - rm -f core `find . -type f -name '.*.flags' -print`
> > + rm -f Core `find . -type f -name 'core' -print`
> > + rm -f Core `find . -type f -name '.*.flags' -print`
> > - rm -f core `find . -type f -size 0 -print`
> > + rm -f Core `find . -type f -size 0 -print`
> > - rm -f core `find . \( -name '*.orig' -o -name '*.rej' -o -name '*~' \
> > + rm -f Core `find . \( -name '*.orig' -o -name '*.rej' -o -name '*~' \
>
> these are all wrong. they fail to remove the core file which may or may
> not have been dumped. the solution is to fix the other programs in any
> case, not change the name of a _directory_ which cannot be a core file,
> by definition.

if you happen to run a program from /usr/src/linux/net and it goes
belly up, there's trouble. linux can't dump core since there's a
directory named core. should we fix linux? ;-)

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J o h a n K u l l s t a m
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