Re: core symlinks

[woods () ncar ucar edu (Greg Woods)]

> Well, here's one data point. I just tested under SunOS 4.1.1; a core dump
> will follow a symlink, unless the symlink points to a file that the user
> can't write, in which case no core will be dumped. I think this is
> reasonable behavior.

I think it is too, and here's at least one legitimate use of core symlinks.
We've had problems in the past with core dumps from our 32 Meg machines
that come from daemon processes filling up the root file system, so we
solved that problem by making /core a symlink to /dev/null.

--Greg