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From: aaa@hpuerca.HP.COM (Simon Fowler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Limiting the size of corefiles
Message-ID: <1340011@hpuerca.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 90 12:23:44 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard NARC -- Atlanta
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>> How does one suppress generation of a corefile (other than writing perfect
>
>  I'd like to know that too.  Until then, a workaround is to create a
>  directory named "core" in your pwd that you can't write to.  Of
>  course, you'd need to do that in each directory you dump core into.
>
>  dr--r--r--   2 pld      guest         64 Sep  5  1989 core
>----------

It does not have to be a directory - a regular file will do.

simon