magic disappearing coredumps

2009-04-24 Thread Horst Günther Burkhardt III
I'm trying to debug a piece of software. It dumps a core file which mysteriously vanishes. it's not in the program directory, nor my $HOME, nor /var/crash nor /var/core ... Deliberately crashing /bin/sh also results in a core file which turns up nowhere on my filesystem. Crossposting to -stable

Re: magic disappearing coredumps

2009-04-24 Thread Gary Palmer
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:21:18AM +1000, Horst G?nther Burkhardt III wrote: I'm trying to debug a piece of software. It dumps a core file which mysteriously vanishes. it's not in the program directory, nor my $HOME, nor /var/crash nor /var/core ... Deliberately crashing /bin/sh also results

Re: magic disappearing coredumps

2009-04-24 Thread Josh Carroll
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Horst Günther Burkhardt III ho...@sxemacs.org wrote: I'm trying to debug a piece of software. It dumps a core file which mysteriously vanishes. it's not in the program directory, nor my $HOME, nor /var/crash nor /var/core ... Deliberately crashing /bin/sh

Re: magic disappearing coredumps

2009-04-24 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Horst Günther Burkhardt III ho...@sxemacs.org wrote: I'm trying to debug a piece of software. It dumps a core file which mysteriously vanishes. it's not in the program directory, nor my $HOME, nor /var/crash nor /var/core ... Deliberately crashing /bin/sh