Christoph Badura wrote:
|I sure could put the more flexible implementation to good use.  Say, give
|news processes their own core dump directory and leave the other users
|undisturbed.

This sounds pretty good. But this makes the interface et al larger. My
change was a "if you want it create the dir - if not all is as usual".

|That is an actual policy and the system administrator should
|decide what the local policy is.

Yepp. Right.

-- 
Heiko W.Rupp        Gerwigstr.5        D-76131  Karlsruhe    +49 721 9661524
Usenet is "the last uncensored mass medium."
      - Steve Crocker (aq817@cleveland.Freenet.Edu)