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From: brians@hpcljms.HP.COM (Brian Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Limiting the size of corefiles
Message-ID: <1340152@hpcljms.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 90 18:05:53 GMT
References: <1990Oct15.171543.9516@ra.src.umd.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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>>How does one suppress generation of a corefile (other than writing perfect
>>programs of course) ??????  
>
>How about:
>
>	ls -s /dev/null core
        ^^
          should be `ln' not `ls'
>
>To automatically `bin' them.
>
>Alan


  Another way is to 
        
        touch ./core
        chmod 0 ./core

  This create an unwritable/undeletable file called core.


                -- Brian --