Re: core dump

J.D. Bakker (bakker@thorgal.et.tudelft.nl)
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:13:11 +0100

>It would be extremely useful to be able to get a core dump that gdb
>understands without having the process stall longer than it takes to write
>the core and have it continue merrily on its way.

Maybe I'm being naive, but isn't it possible to put something like this in
a signal handler:

if(fork() > 0)
(volatile int *) 0 = 0;

Assuming you have the source, off course.

JDB.

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