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From: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>
To: "'Sean Eric Fagan'" <sef@kithrup.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
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Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c 
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 09:44:49 +0100 
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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.

I'd document this issue somewhere, as well as the fact that the cleanup
script would have to be aware of the setting.

Paul Richards Ph.D.
Originative Solutions Ltd


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Eric Fagan [mailto:sef@kithrup.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 12:59 AM
> To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
> Cc: dg@FreeBSD.ORG; cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG; cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c 
> 
> 
> In article 
> <199807072341.QAA02595.kithrup.freebsd.cvs-all@dingo.cdrom.com
> > you write:
> >> I wish we had a sysctl variable for the coredump name. Eg.
> >> 
> >> kern.coredump.name =
> >> 
> >> 0 -> disable core dumps
> >> 1 -> core dump filename 'core'
> >> 2 -> core dump filename 'program.core'
> >> 3 -> core dump filename 'core.program'
> >
> >I think you should buy Sean a beer.