I have made a diligent (but, it seems, not diligent enough) search for how to
do this, without success :-(
Under trixie, how do I configure the system that a core dump generates a file
called simply "core" in the current working directory??
The best I've been able to do is to create a file whose name is of the form
"core.$PID" in the right directory. How do I eliminate the ".$PID" portion of
the name??
"man core" says: "By default, a core dump file is named core, but the
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern file (since Linux 2.6 and 2.4.21) can be set to
define a template that is used to name core dump files". FWIW, in my case
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern contains only the four bytes: core. But for some
reason (that is as clear as mud to me) the dot and the PID is still being
appended to the name when the core file is created.
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