Re: RE : RE : rm -f core cause some troubles

2012-12-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 15 Dec 2012, NightStrike wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 12/15/2012 03:08 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Is the program designed to remove old core files as part of the autoconf process? No, new cores. 'configure' regularly generates programs that dump co

Re: RE : RE : rm -f core cause some troubles

2012-12-16 Thread Paul Eggert
On 12/16/2012 07:06 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Why not just use ulimit to not dump core? Or is that a bashism and not a shism? The ulimit approach seems useful. Yes, that would be nice to add, if someone writes a patch. I doubt whether it'd work everywhere, though. Instead they write a c

Re: Future autoconf package compression

2012-12-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Paul Eggert wrote: >> On 12/15/2012 05:54 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >>> FYI, a couple of weeks ago, Aki Helin exposed still more problems in >>> gzip's unpacking code. >> >> Well, to be fair, I also have a similar problem with 'tar' >> in my inb

Re: Future autoconf package compression

2012-12-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Paul Eggert wrote: >>> On 12/15/2012 05:54 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: FYI, a couple of weeks ago, Aki Helin exposed still more problems in gzip's unpacking code. >>> >>> Well, to be fair, I also have a similar