Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <19990612014305.27003.rocketmail@web601.yahoomail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:43:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: No more .core files To: cygwin developers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Earnie Boyd wrote: > > > > --- Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Assuming, Egor has signed, shouldn't this behaviour be controlled by > > > the CYGWIN variable e.g (no)core (no)dump? > > > > > > I think, this would be useful and convenient options. > > > > I agree. However, display it to stdout if nocore and nodump. > ^^^^^^ > You mean stderr, do you? Yes, that would be appropriate. The brain gets slower as I get older. ;^) > > Then, only a short message should appear, e.g. only the words > "Access violation". No the stackdump. It is often useful and as a single user I don't want files cluttering up the disk unless I need them to; but, I still would like to see the information. Ok. To keep everybody happy how about [no]dump[=display] or similar so that 1) CYGWIN=dump : will create the file.exe.dump 2) CYGWIN=dump=display : will create the file.exe.dump and display to stderr. 3) CYGWIN=nodump : don't create the file and display "Access violation". 4) CYGWIN=nodump=display : don't create file.exe.dump but display to stderr. The default would be dump if nocore is set and nodump if core is set. The default for core should be TRUE. BTW: I just came to realize that it should be [no]stack[=display] instead of [no]dump[=display] as dump could refer to coredump or stackdump. Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com