Re: Directory name problem...

Johan Myreen (johan.myreen@setec.fi)
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:16:07 +0200


On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Riley Williams wrote:

>I've had a word with the said administrator, who insists that the only
>thing that's ever created with the name 'core' is a coredump file,

A useful quick and dirty trick to *prevent* core dumps in a
directory is to create an empty subdirectory called core.

>From my perspective, the simplest solution would be to rename that
>directory to something else, and then edit the relevant Makefiles to
>use the new name instead - as far as I can see, nothing else would be

I say just leave the directory as it is. By the way, this
issue has come up before on this list.

Johan Myreen
jem@iki.fi

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