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From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: /proc (was Solaris 2.6) I guess we should talk.
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Date: 6 Dec 1996 10:13:28 +0100
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Richard Campbell <ric@ny.ubs.com> writes:

>One feature I'd like to see is to have core files produced under
>the /proc tree somewhere, presumably backed by tmp/swap space.
>It's a drag to have large core files produced by the kernel
>in the current directory when that directory is NFS/AFS/DFS
>mounted. There's no real need to have those MBs of core data written
>across the network; I'd rather they were stored locally allong with
>other proc info.


As soon as a process core dumps, it's gone.  So there's no /proc stuff
available for it anymore.


I don't see how you can change the current core dumping semantics
easily.  (I mean, some people don't have the space locally to have a
large core file, but do have such space over the network)

Casper
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