Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!cognos!jimp
From: jimp@cognos.UUCP (Jim Patterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Limiting the size of corefiles
Message-ID: <8932@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 90 14:23:34 GMT
References: <1990Oct15.171543.9516@ra.src.umd.edu> <4840@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Reply-To: jimp@cognos.UUCP (Jim Patterson)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <4840@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> al@cs.strath.ac.uk (Alan Lorimer) writes:
>In article <1990Oct15.171543.9516@ra.src.umd.edu> preetham@ra.src.umd.edu writes:
>>
>>How does one suppress generation of a corefile (other than writing perfect
>>programs of course) ??????  
>
>How about:
>
>	ls -s /dev/null core
>
>To automatically `bin' them.

This appears as if it will work, but I'll bet it will still take a bit
of time to 'bin' then when a large program bombs.

It might be better to create a core file and change permissions so you
can't write to it, forcing a write error when the core dump is
attempted, as in
		touch core
		chmod a-rw core
This work for me, and instead of saying
		Bus error (core dumped)
HP-UX just says
		Bus error
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