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- From: thecure@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew aardvarkious)
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't Amiga core-dump? *sigh*
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <BxL1K6.CnG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1e0q1kINN7eu@uni-paderborn.de>
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 03:18:41 GMT
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- tron@uni-paderborn.de (Matthias Scheler) writes:
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- >In article <BxL1K6.CnG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
- >|>
- >|> Just a question.. why don't Amigas coredump like UNIX? Why do they
- >|> instead crash messily and reset? Basically, I'm asking.. what allows a
- >|> UNIX to coredump, and relativeily, what does Amiga LACK that won't let
- >|> it coredump w/o crashing?
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- >Core-Dumping is not the main point. I suppress core dumping, because I don't
- >like this 8 MB files in my home dir and Unix still crashes. The thing that
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- Err, when it dumps it has a lot 0 bytes that are compressed. Hence you can have
- an 8 meg file, but only takes 300k or so. If you were to cp it , it would explode,
- but if you mv if, the inodes remain constant, and the so does the file size.
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