> > Log message: > > When kern.nosuidcoredump=3, act like =2 but try to dump cores into > > the /var/crash/programname/ directory, as root. For instance, > > Just a thought: on Solaris the convention is to coredump to > /var/core/$programname.$pid.$timestamp.core (I could be misremembering > ordering or other details) -- which saves the "remember to create a > directory" step. Would something like that -- essentially encoding a > bit more information in the filename -- be useful here too?
No, not really. Since you want to avoid overflowing the /var space anyways you must always clean up. The developers will cope. Love the inclusion of the timestamp in the filename. Amazed they didn't put the filesize into the name as well.
