RPM's

Johnathan Bailes johnathan.bailes at gmail.com
Mon Jan 10 04:04:46 UTC 2005


On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 23:48:40 +0000, James Wilkinson
<james at westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> And yes, I've had People Who Should Know Better not know why "core" is a
> Bad Name for a file. Personally, I wish it had been ".core".
> 
> James.
> 
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> 

Oracle and some other commercial apps use the string core in the names
of many of their files  plus some apps I know dump their core to an
odd name <string>.core.

Combine the two and cleaning up those systems is always fun.




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