Subject: Re: core dump filename format
To: None <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
From: Christoph Badura <bad@oreilly.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/11/1999 19:56:22
lucio@proxima.alt.za (Lucio De Re) writes:
>As for trying to find a core dump, why doesn't the message "core dumped"
>get extended to include the location of the output file anyway?

That message is printed by the shell when it collects the exit status
with the wait() family of system calls.  And the exist status doesn't
allow to pass the file name of the core dump.

-- 
Christoph Badura					www.netbsd.org

	Anything that can be done in O(N) can be done in O(N^2).
	-- Ralf Schuettau (after looking at a particular piece of code)