On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 02:30:54AM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > I've added some options to the Hurd crash server (/hurd/crash), > that takes over when a program crashes and wants to "dump core".
Looks good! > Theoretically one can select the crash server naming point programs will > use with the CRASHSERVER environment variable. But that does not appear to > be working. If it were, then I would suggest having the default > installation make three naming points for the three modes of operation: > > # settrans -c /servers/crash-suspend /hurd/crash --suspend > # settrans -c /servers/crash-kill /hurd/crash --kill > # settrans -c /servers/crash-dump-core /hurd/crash --dump-core > > and then /servers/crash can be a symlink to one of these, to choose the > system-wide default behavior. Users can use CRASHSERVER=/servers/crash-HOW > in their environment to select the desired option for particular uses. > > But, that does not appear to be working, so right now until we get around > to fixing that bug, it's /servers/crash or nothing and the system-wide > default is the only choice. But we can still have all three translators and the symlink, can't we? Then we are prepared when setting the variable works. Thanks, Marcus -- "The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
