RFC: find core dumps on Linux

Jim Blandy jimb@redhat.com
Thu May 29 23:02:00 GMT 2003


I've committed this.

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

> On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 05:37:52PM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
> > 
> > I didn't realize this, but for a very long time, gdb.base/coredump.exp
> > has been broken on Linux.  Linux creates core files named 'core.PID';
> > the test suite didn't know how to find them, so it suggested you check
> > your 'ulimit -c' setting and skipped the tests.
> 
> Seems reasonable to me.  It'll clean up better than before, too.
> 
> > 2003-05-22  Jim Blandy  <jimb@redhat.com>
> > 
> > 	* gdb.base/corefile.exp: Find corefiles on Linux, which names them
> > 	'core.PID'.
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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