No more .core files

[Corinna Vinschen]

Chris Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 09:59:28AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Chris Faylor wrote:
> >>
> >> I just changed the name of the files produced by cygwin from
> >> something.core to something.stackdump.  Hopefully this will help
> >> minimize some confusion and pave the way for true core files in the
> >> future -- once I finally get the assignment form from Egor.
> >
> >The something.stackdump files will die then? Good news.
> 
> Only if someone has selected that they want to have core files.
> 
> I think that the stackdump files are marginally useful.  They allow
> me to say "It's not cygwin's fault." pretty quickly by inspecting the
> address where a fault occurred.

I understand.

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.

Corinna