Re: renaming core dumps
Albert Cahalan (albert@ccs.neu.edu)
Wed, 21 Feb 1996 10:26:32 -0500 (EST)
> I just got a new beta gdb which dumped core...
>
> I then ran gdb on the core and it core dumped...
>
> This has always been frustrating...freebsd has core dumps of the
> form core.command which is much preferable over "core".
>
> This is a fix to generate
>
> core.<name>.<pid>
>
> instead of just core...
Would you be happy with something less BSD but more logical?
I think <pid>.core or <name>-<pid>.core would be better.
(At least core.<name>.<pid> will not generate core.tar, but
I still prefer the suffix method.)