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From: ted@hpwrce.HP.COM ( Ted Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Limiting the size of corefiles
Message-ID: <7870019@hpwrce.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 90 22:02:43 GMT
References: <1990Oct15.171543.9516@ra.src.umd.edu>
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>On the SUNs, this can be done including the line
>"limit coredumpsize 0",
>However on the HP's I am unable to find an equivalent.

The hack I've always used is to (as root) create an empty
file ("touch core"), and remove write permission to it.

Of course, this won't work if the program being debugged is
run as root.

-Ted

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