On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Jack N. Asher <jnash...@gmail.com> wrote: > If there is a list of daemons, etc. running 24/7, it would be useful > if they all dumped in 1 folder rather than using a script to search > for them. This way we will actually notice when a core dumps; the core > is not buried deep inside a current-working-directory waiting for it > to be discovered by some script. Even Python dumps core sometimes.
On single directory for everyone's core files? Personally I don't like that idea. Especially if I'm working on a project and want to find the core files in my current directory rather than some other place where there may be a ton of other core files festering away... --patrick > Anyway, my $0.02. > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 15:37, Jack N. Asher wrote: >>> Is there a way to specify a custom core dump folder in OpenBSD ? I do >>> not see any references to it in sysctl -a >>> If not, is there a security reason for it not being supported or can >>> it be added to a wishlist ? >> >> It is not supported, probably because nobody found any use for it. >> >> You can add anything you like to your wishlist, just keep your expectations >> in check. :)
