Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:05:20 +0200 (IST)
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On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> But perhaps somebody will try to add core dump functionality some day;

I hope someone will.  Any takers?

> I hope this will not make it harder for him/her.

No, it won't.  Core will still be dumped, but you will not be able to
make anything useful with it unless you rebuild the binary without
stripping--exactly what happens today with stack tracebacks.

Anyway, it seems that the automatic -s will not happen any time soon:
too many people object to it.