John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> writes:
> On 11/20/2015 2:13 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It'd be reasonable to skip 'em if we can identify 'em reliably. I'm
>> not sure how reliably we can do that though.
> aren't they nearly always named 'core' ?
No. Modern systems more often call them something like 'core.<pid>'.
What really makes it messy is that the name is user-configurable on
most Linux kernels, see /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern.
We could probably get away with excluding anything that matches "*core*",
but it wouldn't be bulletproof.
regards, tom lane