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    SubjectRe: magic file entry to understand core dumps
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    	I seem to remember a discussion about this before, and there was
    something about making it core.test if it were to die. There were concerns
    for folks still using minix-fs, etc.

    We can't make everyone happy all the time.

    - jared

    Johnie Stafford graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge:
    > >>>>> "jm" == Jared Mauch <jared@wolverine.hq.cic.net> writes:
    >
    > jm> Works for me:
    > jm> lunar:~> make test
    > jm> cc test.c -o test
    > jm> ./test
    > jm> lunar:~> ./test
    > jm> Floating exception (core dumped)
    > jm> lunar:~> file core
    > jm> core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file i386 (386 and up) Version 1
    > jm> lunar:~> cat test.c
    > jm> main()
    > jm> {
    > jm> printf("%d\n", 0/0);
    > jm> }
    > jm> lunar:~>
    >
    >
    > jm> Marty Leisner graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge:
    > >>
    > >> Does anyone have a magic line to correctly decode a linux elf
    > >> core dump?
    > >>
    > >> I looked in gdb but got pretty confused...(but it seems to understand
    > >> the core file).
    > >>
    > >> It would be worthwhile to write a cheezy program to print the command
    > >> name of the core dump if file can't do it...
    >
    > I think he was looking more for the output that Solaris has:
    >
    > js@kraken$ ./test
    > Arithmetic Exception (core dumped)
    > js@kraken$ file core
    > core: ELF 32-bit MSB core file SPARC Version 1, from 'test'
    > ^^^^^^^^^^^
    > This has the name of the offending command in the output file.
    >
    > Johnie
    >
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