From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 22 14:58:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA26388 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 14:58:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA26377 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 14:58:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA20494; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 23:58:10 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA07024; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 23:57:59 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id VAA26540; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 21:46:33 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602222046.VAA26540@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: core dump names To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 21:46:32 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9602221730.AA27684@gnu.mc.xerox.com> from "Marty Leisner" at Feb 22, 96 09:30:17 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)