Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.1.131: some quality thoughts | Date | Sat, 19 Dec 1998 01:20:57 +0100 | From | Olaf Titz <> |
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> is a terrible name for anything but a core-file. In fact, core isn't even > a good name for a core file (I think the core-file name should include the > executable file name and the PID). Something like
Once upon a time Linux did dump core into "core.NAME" with the appropriate executable NAME, but that was changed because the assumption that a core file is named "core" is about as deeply entrenched in Un*x minds as the assumption that SIGKILL==9.
IOW, too many complaints that "it breaks other stuff".
Olaf
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