Jason Roscoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to limit the size of coredumps using 'ulimit -c'. Can someone > please explain why a core file gets generated from the coretest program > (source is below)?
The creation is only suppressed when the limit is zero. Otherwise it will be truncated at the specified limit, but that does not count holes. The core file is probable pretty sparse; try running du on it. In any case this has nothing to do with the shell. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
