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- From: mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: How to prevent a large core-dump
- Message-ID: <1360@pacsoft.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 08:31:56 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.173056.13401@utwente.nl>
- Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
- Organization: Pacific Software Group, Riverside, Ca.
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- In an article, soos@math.utwente.nl (Adwin Soos) writes:
- >This problem is now occurring at our place where someone is writing a large
- >program and in some test-cases there is a core dump for more than 60 Mb.
- >This person is not using this core to debug it so maybe we can just stop the
- >creation of this core for this person.
-
- For a temporary solution, change the user's current working directory to
- one where he (or she) doesn't have write permission. Naturally, the best
- solution is to fix the program so it doesn't dump core in the first place.
-
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- Mike Stefanik mike@pacsoft.com ...!uunet!pacsoft!mike
- Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA
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