Bug #12588
savecore could be smarter when expanding dumps
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New
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Normal
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Category:
cmd - userland programs
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Description
I had a dump where the compressed dump was erroneously named 'vmcore.0'. Not noticing beforehand, running savecore with it ended up truncating the file and immediately erring out. I think it's reasonable for savecore to make sure it's not overwriting its source file.