Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Tue, 28 Dec 1999 16:31:24 +0300 (MSK) | Subject | Re: linux-kernel-digest V1 #4980 |
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In <3868F41E.888F65FA@danlawinc.com> nag (nageswarap@danlawinc.com) wrote: > hai all, > can any body tell me some thing about core. > why it omes all of a sudden ..what harm it is going to do for the system.
core file is just dump of offending program memory (illegal instruction was executed, null pointer was dereferenced, whatever). You can use it with gdb (or equivalent) to track down problems in programs (if you are lucky anyway :-) or you can send it to program authors for examination. In all other cases they are harmless but meaningless and can be deleted (if you are not interested in debugging you can turn off generation of core files with ulimit)...
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