Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 21:46:32 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: core dump names Message-ID: <199602222046.VAA26540@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9602221730.AA27684@gnu.mc.xerox.com> from "Marty Leisner" at Feb 22, 96 09:30:17 am
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As Marty Leisner wrote: > I like the behavior of Freebsd to name core dumps with command.core > (when did this start?) It started as core.command somewhere on the way to 4.4BSD. It used to be this way in the grandfather, the Net-2 distribution. > What do you do when you're on a file system which has name > limitation (i.e. 8+3 msdos?) That's why FreeBSD decided to take it reverse: you can truncate the names to longcomm.cor, and it's still somewhat obvious that it's a core file. (What will happen if you then click on it inside Winglows? Will it launche a FreeBSD debugger? :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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