Re: renaming core dumps

Rogier Wolff (r.e.wolff@et.tudelft.nl)
Fri, 23 Feb 1996 11:30:13 +0100

> > 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.
> >
>
> ... so is core.command (core.c anyone?)

Nope not quite. Ever heard of a filesystem that has 6 letter
filename limit a one letter extension limit?

You're always going to end up with
core.verylongc
or core.ver
with currently normal (i.e. still in existance for backward
compatibility) filesystem restrictions.

Roger.

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