Re: Tip'o'the Day: Don't name anything core!

2010-03-01 Thread Helmut Walle
Hm, frustrating... However, sometimes it may make sense to create an empty directory or read-only file named core. A while ago, I had a fair amount of trouble on a system consisting of less than grand hardware. The software we were running was something commercial (no source available), and

Re: Tip'o'the Day: Don't name anything core!

2010-03-01 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
significantly to filling up the hard disk. As we didn't own the source code, and there was no effective support from the manufacturer, the core files weren't really much use. So the best thing we could do was to prevent their creation in the first place, and this can obviously be achieved

Re: Tip'o'the Day: Don't name anything core!

2010-03-01 Thread Kerry Nisbet
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:22:12 you wrote: significantly to filling up the hard disk. As we didn't own the source code, and there was no effective support from the manufacturer, the core files weren't really much use. So the best thing we could do was to prevent their creation in the first

Tip'o'the Day: Don't name anything core!

2010-02-28 Thread John Carter
So Friday was a trifle frustrating... Somehow things didn't work out quite right and I seem to have lost a bunch of work... So monday morning was spent working out what went wrong... Aha! I was working with the Light Weight IP stack which has all it's core functionality in a directory

Re: Tip'o'the Day: Don't name anything core!

2010-02-28 Thread Roy Britten
On 1 March 2010 11:48, John Carter john.car...@tait.co.nz wrote: Moral of the story. Avoid the name core for anything other than core dumps. And there I was thinking the moral would be to do with using CVS ;)