Re: CORE dumps be gone ?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

A more correct way to get rid of `those annoying core dumps' is to get rid
of the bugs in the applications.  To do that, sending in stack traces from
gdb is quite helpful.  Telling the OS not to dump core files makes this a
lot harder to do.

Just remember that if you turn core files off, you will have a much harder
time tracking down bugs (and you won't be as helpful to developers when
they ask for a back trace).

James.

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On Fri, 21 May 1999, Warren Young wrote:

> dennis wrote:
> > 
> > Is there any way to tell gnome not to repart core dumps... ?
> > I'm sick of deleting the dman sucker from my .gnome-desktop when ever
> > something goies wrong.
> > I don't get many, but I have tried of seeing the little blighters.
> 
> In your shell's startup script (.bash_profile, .login, etc.) add the
> following line:
> 
> ulimit -c 0
> 
> That tells the OS not to write core files bigger than 0 bytes.  Which is
> to say, not to write them at all!  Of course, this causes _all_ crashes
> to happen silently.
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