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From: David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
To: gdb <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: core files in testsuite directory
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yf2vfrf7b55.fsf@hawaii.kealia.com> (raw)

My testsuite directory is littered with core files.  They're from
annota1, annota3 (the one in gdb.base, not the one in gdb.cp), and
signals.  The first two tests attempt to remove a file named 'core',
but the core files are actually named 'core.PID', so they stay around.

Some questions:

* I assume that all these tests are generating core files for
  legitimate reasons?  It's not entirely clear to me why they're being
  generated, but I don't really understand what signals lead to core
  files in the first place.

Assuming that's the case, we should presumably change the core file
cleanup function (and move it to lib/gdb.exp, for ease of sharing, and
have signals.exp call it as well).  So:

* What should the new cleanup function do?  Should it just try to
  remove core.*?  Or should it be passed the PID of the process in
  question, and only try to remove core.PID and core?

David Carlton
carlton@kealia.com


             reply	other threads:[~2003-09-26 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-26 17:40 David Carlton [this message]
2003-09-26 17:49 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-09-26 18:12   ` David Carlton
2003-09-26 21:19     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-09-27  4:33 Michael Elizabeth Chastain

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