Re: core dump

[Jesse Pollard]

>On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Christophe leroy wrote:
>>Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 12:03:42 +0100
>>From: Christophe leroy <[e-mail]>
>>To: [e-mail]
>>Subject: core dump
>>
>>Is there a way to make a core dump of a program without killing it,
>>in order to make some debugging while the program is still running ?
>
>kill -SEGV <pid>
>
>or
>
>kill -11 <pid>
>
>or
>
>killall -SEGV <process name>
>
>I believe that will do it, so long as coredumps are not disabled.

Nope. All of these terminate the process. I believe what is desired is
more like:

	kill -STOP pid

Which will suspend the process. Use the debugger to look at memory.

Other than this, I don't know of a way to extract the core dump.

After looking at the suspended process, remember to do

	kill -CONT pid

to resume it.
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