Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Feb 2002 07:11:09 -0500 | From | Michael Sinz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Core dump file control |
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Martin Dalecki wrote: > > Jakob Østergaard wrote: > > >On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 11:10:55AM -0500, Michael Sinz wrote: > > > >>I have, for a long time, wished that Linux had a way to specify where > >>core dumps are stored and what the name of the core dump is. Now that > >>I have been building large linux clusters with many diskless nodes, > >>this need has become even more important. > >> > >... > > > >I just wanted to throw in my 0.02 Euro on this one: > > > >I have not yet tested your patch yet - but this functionality is *very* > >important to my company as well. > > > >Anyone developing applications with multiple processes will benefit > >significantly from having core files named differnetly than just "core". > > > >A patch was included in the kernel some time ago, to allow the appending of the > >PID - however, this is not really good enough. It's better than nothing, but > >it's not good. > > > >What I want is "core.[process name]" eventually with a ".[pid]" appended. A > >flexible scheme like your patch implements is very nice. Actually having > >the core files in CWD is fine for me - I mainly care about the file name. > > Please execute the size command on the core fiel: > > size core > > to see why this isn't needed.
Huh? explain... If I have multiple programs running and one cores, would I not want to have the core file name be based on the program that cored? Linux had the PID option (kernel.core_uses_pid) specifically so that you could have multiple process core files.
Plus, I need to be able to redirect core files to a sane location in the cluster (which is a whole other kettle of fish).
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