Re: RE : RE : rm -f core cause some troubles

[Paul Eggert]

On 12/16/2012 07:06 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > Why not just use ulimit to not dump core?  Or is that a bashism and not a shism?
>
> The ulimit approach seems useful.

Yes, that would be nice to add, if someone writes
a patch.  I doubt whether it'd work everywhere, though.
 
> Instead they write a core file with some other file name

Autoconf-generated 'configure' scripts remove the commonly-used
file names for core files.

> or even write all core files to some other directory on the system.

It doesn't catch those.