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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:12:39 +0200 (MET DST)
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> base address, which makes it look like a 4Gb address space) the core
> files are huge unless they are dumped in pieces.  This also makes it
> a real pain to process the core files also...

Right. That's why, on "real" Unix, core files may be created with "holes"
in them, i.e. areas of the file that take up file size, but are not really
assigned any space on disk. DOS/Windows filesystems can't do that, so
we'll need other means of simulating those holes.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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