Messages in this thread |  | | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: Core dumps & restarting | Date | Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:40:02 -0600 (CST) |
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> I believe Emacs ships with an undump program. I don't > know if this have been ported to Linux, but it would be a nice weekend > project for someone.
Actually it is a routine that is linked in called unexec(). It never generates a core dump, just creates a new executable from the running image and some magic smoke extracted from the old executable.
Various flavours of the routine exist for all Linux executable types.
r~
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