From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 22 09:31:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA03067 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 09:31:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA03058 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 09:31:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14713(8)>; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 09:30:27 PST Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15731; Thu, 22 Feb 96 12:30:18 EST Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27684; Thu, 22 Feb 96 12:30:18 EST Message-Id: <9602221730.AA27684@gnu.mc.xerox.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: core dump names Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 09:30:17 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I like the behavior of Freebsd to name core dumps with command.core (when did this start?) I made a change in Linux 1.3.66 to implement similar semantics (actually, I'm adding the pid). What do you do when you're on a file system which has name limitation (i.e. 8+3 msdos?) marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom (http://www.lpf.org) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001