Re: Linux 2.1.125 doesn't dump core on SIGSEGV

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:44:13 +0000 (GMT)


> The big downside to this is that the user only gets one coer file, the
> upside is that this reduces the amount of wasted disk space.
>
> I dont expect this to ever be implemented in Linux, but I always thought
> it was a cool idea.

Its a nice solution. I still miss the approach some non unix platforms have
where when the program takes the fatal exception its frozen and dumped under
the debugger

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