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From: glennrp@BRL.MIL (Glenn Randers-Pehrson, WMB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: preventing core dumps
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Date: 28 Feb 90 15:25:06 GMT
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Brian Sturgill <brian@cs.utah.edu> wrote that he prevents IRIX from
making core dumps by making a symbolic link for /core to /dev/null.
I've been accomplishing the same by making a zero length core with
mode 0.  But I really wish the operating system designers would provide
an environment variable $NO_CORE or the like that could be used to
prevent core dumps.   ...Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@brl.mil>