I have noticed that running (unstable tree exclusively) latex from emacs in X, if I should restart latex, as the emacs manual, I am almost certain, suggests is ok, latex dumps core. I haven't tried this when not in X.
I have used this method extensively with Slackware and this has not happened. It apparently is not harmful, except to litter the small hard drive with 2.5 to 4 and up Megabyte core files. Alan Davis
