On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Lucio De Re wrote:

# On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 10:45:22AM -0700, Gandhi woulda smacked you wrote:
# > 
# > Has anyone given any thought to these files not being named something
# > that resembles [^s]*core*?  What happens to the nightly system check
# > that goes out and looks for core files?  You want to run 'file' on
# > every single file on your disk and have it report back on that?  That's
# > ludicrous.
# > 
# I agree that the *.core format is a convenient one, and consequently is
# a useful default, but appending .core to user-selected strings by default
# is more restrictive than the opposite: I can always do that by choice.

This is the point.  I don't WANT my users hiding core files.  I don't
WANT to have to run 'file' on every single file in the evening.  It's
wasteful.  I thought for a while that we'd been trying to IMPROVE
performance?

# As for trying to find a core dump, why doesn't the message "core dumped"
# get extended to include the location of the output file anyway?  This
# could be optional, depending on whether the default had been changed, but
# I see little reason not to include it in all instances.
# 
# ++L
# 


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