On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:02:28AM +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2018-02-15 at 14:37 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/15/2018 12:20 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > "Crash save" files weren't unique to DG systems, BTW. DEC VAX/VMS
did
> > it, MAI/Basic4 did it, Tandem did it...lots of systems did it (usually
> > using different nomenclatures). Heck, vi/vim does it in a way (via ye
> > ol' ".filename.swp" backup file).
>
> If memory serves, Unix used "core" for that, and it was an actual core
dump.
That's correct. It's also correct for Linux, except that by default the
core dump is normally turned off and you have to enable it (see 'man
core').
poc
I always use "ulimit -c unlimited" to enable coredumps. is there a
more preferred way?
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