Re: [Sheflug] core files?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris J/#6 <sixie [at] nccnet.co.uk> writes:

    Chris> Unless you're planning on debugging a program, they can be
    Chris> safely deleted with no ill effect. Most dists have a cron
    Chris> job that runs every now and then that deletes core files of
    Chris> a certain age.

In most "modern" Linux distros, even if you are planning to debug, you
may as well delete the core file.  Most modern distros compile with
high optimization, no debugging symbols, and strip the binary.  So
unless you are building from source yourself, there probably won't be
anything useful in the core file.  :-(


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