Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 28 Oct 1996 17:28:12 -0500 | From | Neil Moore <> | Subject | Re: CORE dumps... |
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> > > > The "core" files are dumped program cores, i.e. they contain complete > > status and memory info from a running program which crashed. It is > > intended for debugging purposes. I believe it can be loaded with the GNU > > debugger, but I haven't messed with that yet. > > BTW, how do I disable this feature ? If a program dies, I get "core" > in who-knows-what directory ... A core of Netscape should be around 4Meg, > and I only have 15Meg available ... :) > Is there a kernel compile option to disable core dumps ? I am not > that interested to do much debugging using cores, not to mention that my gdb > complains when I try to load a core file ...
This should be a feature of your shell. In bash, use `ulimit -c 0'. I'm not sure about csh.
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