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From: bruce@hpihoah.cup.hp.com (Bruce LaVigne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Limiting the size of corefiles
Message-ID: <5030010@hpihoah.cup.hp.com>
Date: 18 Oct 90 22:25:13 GMT
References: <1990Oct15.171543.9516@ra.src.umd.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> >  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
> ----------
It does not have to be non-writable if it is a directory though,
so often I do a:

 mkdir core

in directories I am running in.  That way, even if running as root
which might be allowed to write to non-writable files, it cannot put
a file onto a directory...

-bruce

Disclaimer: My opinions only.  This is not an HP response, official or otherwise