Re: ci: Skip minfree file in the cores_backtrace.sh

> On 17 Oct 2025, at 14:25, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de> wrote:
>
> On 2025-Oct-17, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
>
>> first=1
>> -for corefile in $(find "$directory" -type f) ; do
>> +# minfree is not a core file but may exists in the crash directory, skip it
>> +for corefile in $(find "$directory" -type f -not -name "minfree") ; do
>> if [ "$first" -eq 1 ]; then
>> first=0
>> else
>
> This looks quite random. Why not do "find ... -name '*core*'" instead?
> I mean, if we have minfree there today, we could have maxbusy tomorrow
> or whatever.

I think we should be able to count of the core directory on controlled CI
instances not being cluttered with random files - if it is we probably want a
test failure logged so we can look at it - but minfree is a special file for
core dump handling on some platforms so skipping that make sense I think.

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Daniel Gustafsson