From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 27 10:37:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA15781 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:37:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from goliath.camtech.net.au (goliath.camtech.net.au [203.5.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA15740 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:37:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thyerm@camtech.net.au) Received: from camtech.net.au (dialup-ad-13-41.camtech.net.au [203.55.242.105]) by goliath.camtech.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id DAA08264; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 03:06:03 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <35E59889.4BB565A5@camtech.net.au> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 03:04:01 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wolfram Schneider CC: joelh@gnu.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file segment sizes of a core dump References: <199808231906.VAA04727@campa.panke.de> <35E18FF5.B7FADA7B@camtech.net.au> <19980824193728.B4111@panke.de> <199808251931.OAA00986@detlev.UUCP> <35E40C49.C673670C@camtech.net.au> <199808262253.RAA03247@detlev.UUCP> <19980827160951.A3164@panke.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Works for me. Maybe for the coredump identification you should run 'file' on it. Maybe 'file' should be run for non-core dumps too. If 'file' is not available just "[coredump]" would do for me. Somehow the full path being there for coredumps and not for normal objects doesn't seem right. Wolfram Schneider wrote: > I have now a version without the switch. size(1) checks now > a value of the user structure (number of groups). If > the values seems correct size(1) assume it is a core file. -- /=====================================================================\ |Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au| \=====================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message