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From: amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Core Dumps
Keywords: How to not have 'em...
Message-ID: <591@s5.Morgan.COM>
Date: 10 Dec 89 01:15:09 GMT
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co. NY, NY
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I am porting a large program to SCO UNIX System/V 386 r3.2 and
it has acquired the habit of core dumping here and there. There
isn't a lot of use in looking at the dumps, which (due to data)
are about 8 MBytes. I have tried to find a limit I can put on
the size of core dumps, or a way to pipe them to /dev/null, etc.
because it's pretty annoying to wait for the thing to dump 8
MBytes before much else useful can be done with the machine.

I put a file in the directory with the name core, owned by
root and read only, but the dump still happens. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Andrew Mullhaupt