Re: Core Dump Report

[Daniele Pala]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:16:11AM -0400, Ahmed Masud wrote:
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> 
> On Wed, 14 May 2003, Chandrasekhar wrote:
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> > Hi Experts,
> >
> > I want to obtain the core dump information from the running kernel.
> > How can I do so by reading the /proc/kcore file.?
> >
> > Regards
> > Chandrasekhar
> > -
> >
> 
> For all intents and purposes you can treat /proc/kcore as a coredump file
> :) . Have a look at kgdb and related tools to interpret it correctly.
> 

yeah, except that /proc/kcore is "dynamic" so you can't always trust the gdb cached information.

> Cheers,
> 
> Ahmed.
>

Cheers,
	
	Daniele