On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:41:55PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Tim Potter wrote: > > > I was poking around in the segv signal handling code today as I'm in a > > situation where an actual core dump would be handy to have. > > > > The intent of the current code looks like core dumps are to be made in > > $LOGDIR/corefiles but the dump_core() function is never executed as the > > argument to fault_setup() is never used. > > > > Do we want to keep the existing behaviour or shall I fix it to do what > > was intended? > > I would say do what was intended. I often need core files :-(
It would also be nice to have a core-<server>-<pid> filename for the core dump but I'm not sure how portable that is.