Program crash data..?
 

Hi.

For some reason, once I updated kde to 3.4...i've been geting these "Program Crash Data" files in my home directory. They are named like..."core.28087"...and each has it's own number. Anyway, I tried to open one..and it doesn't know what to associate the file name with.

So what are these, and why are they being put into my home directory? How can I make it so they aren't put there?

Thanks

-RoaCh

That is a core dump file. It's a nice mess of debug information dropped in a tiny file. Probably what was in the memory, register settings and a slew of other little things.

you can ulimit -c 0

That will simply limit the core dump to 0 bytes. I don't know if a filename will be generated or not.

The other method to disable generation is to modify the kernel and recompile.

That didnt fix it. What's weird though, is I've NEVER seen one of these files until I installed kde 3.4. Is there no way to turn it off without recompiling? I'm using the same kernel as before too..