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

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 15 Dec 2012, NightStrike wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 12/15/2012 03:08 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > Is the program designed to remove old core
> > > files as part of the autoconf process?
> >
> >
> > No, new cores.  'configure' regularly generates
> > programs that dump core, as part of its ordinary
> > working procedure.
>
> Why not just use ulimit to not dump core?  Or is that a bashism and not a shism?

The ulimit approach seems useful.

Blindly trying to remove a file named 'core' seems somewhat silly 
since many OSs do not write a file named 'core'.  Instead they write a 
core file with some other file name or even write all core files to 
some other directory on the system.

Bob
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