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From: riku@field.FI (Riku Kalinen / Systems)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Need signal handler that will rename core file.
Keywords: core, signals
Message-ID: <82@field.FI>
Date: 16 May 89 13:39:46 GMT
References: <1436@prcrs.UUCP>
Organization: Field OY, Helsinki, Finland
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mcvic@prcrs.UUCP (David J. McVicar) writes:
>	How can a process, while handling a core dumping signal, leave
>a core file in the current working directory (or other directory, if
>possible) that is not named 'core'.  ...

Seems little impossible to me. I used the following workaround, though:

When your process cathes something and thinks that it should dump core,
do the following:
  -make directory named, say, core<pid>
  -cd to that directory
  -dump core

Voila!

-riku kalinen, field oy, helsinki, finland
-riku@field.fi