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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