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From: gold@puck.wpd.sgi.com (Michael Gold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Inhibiting core dumps
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Date: 13 Apr 90 12:01:33 GMT
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In-reply-to: jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU's message of 12 Apr 90 21:20:23 GMT


My favorite "hack" to limiting core dumps in / is to create a
directory /core.  The program cannot replace a directory with a file;
thus no core dump.  The obvious drawback is that you lose potential
debugging information.

Consider this a personal suggestion, not an official response from
SGI...

 -- Mike