Subject: Re: core dump filename format
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/08/1999 11:53:50
Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net> writes:
> >* it's probably useful to add a specifier for the process start time
> >(p->p_stats->p_start) as well.
> 
> ...but everyone seems to have comments on what would be nice given the
> facility to control core dump naming.

Welcome to the slippery slope.  Provide the one bit of flexibility,
and it's guaranteed that a lot more will be desired, and probably even
should be.  There are quite rightly a lot of different potentially
useful data which can be used to distinguish different processes!


cgd
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