From owner-cvs-sys Wed Jul 8 13:44:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26112 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:44:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-sys) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA25953; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:44:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA00625; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 09:18:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807081618.JAA00625@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Paul Richards cc: "'Sean Eric Fagan'" , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, dg@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Jul 1998 09:44:49 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 09:18:22 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Not a bad idea to have configurable core file naming but bear in mind > that the format we chose in the first place i.e. progname.core was done > after much discussion since /etc/daily or one of the other similar > scripts does a spring clean to remove them and if you pick something > like core.progname you can end up deleting core.c and so forth. Given that cleaning of .core files is disabled (see comments in /etc/ daily, which should now be almost empty in the light of /etc/periodic), this is not much of an issue anymore. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com