Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Dec 1998 06:28:06 -0800 | From | Chris Pirih <> | Subject | Re: core files (was Re: 2.1.131: some quality thoughts) |
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> > "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> said: > > >> Long term, I think the whole core file idea needs to be tossed in > >> favor of just starting a debugger. [ arguments pro and con deleted ]
How about starting up a debugger on the faulting process, and making the default "debugger" be a simple core-dumper? The core-dumper could be configured to generate whatever file name you want, and the kernel wouldn't have to know anything about core files at all.
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