Re: renaming core dumps

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Thu, 22 Feb 1996 09:49:58 +0000 (GMT)


> This has been discussed a number of times on this list. IMHO, if we want
> to tack on the command name to the core file, the format should be
> command.core, not core.command. That FreeBSD does it the other way is no
> reason for us to do so.

command.core is _bad_. Its not going to be funny when the command is 14
characters long on a minixfs partition or a sys5 partition.

Alan