Re: core file name: <exec>.core -> core.<exec>
"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:40:31 +0100 Quentin Garnier <[email protected]> wrote: > > sysctl -w kern.defcorename=core.%n > > > > It's strange that it is not a default. > > Now *that* is a strange thing to say. I'm curious there: what could > possibly be a reason for "core.%n" to make more sense than "%n.core"? That was my thought too. In fact, there is a very good reason to have the current default. Conventionally, file names have been made up of the form <differentia>.<genus> IOW the part before the dot is the description of the specific contents of this file and the part after describes the type of file. Some OS's and programs even require this to find file types or determine what operation to perform on files. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[email protected]> http://www.NetBSD.org/