13 Sep
2014
13 Sep
'14
2:18 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:11 PM, John Cowan <cowan(a)mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
Dave Horsfall scripsit:
This reminds me of a similar discussion thirty-three years ago:
http://article.olduse.net/125@Auiucdcs.UUCP
http://article.olduse.net/19@Aresearch.UUCP
http://article.olduse.net/20@Aresearch.UUCP
...which seems to confirm the "nth file" version.
(Also, hi everyone. First post here. Possibly the only, though.)
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Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity(a)gmail.com>
Delete from Switch Register (delete file whose
i-num is in CSR)
There's no doubt that this is right, but
<http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/03/18/a-bit-of-history> claims
that the switch register was set to the number of files to skip over
before dumping core. If you resumed the core dump, the next file would
be deleted. This allowed deleting files whose names could not be typed.