Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:55:08 -0800 (PST) | From | Matthew Dharm <> | Subject | Re: core dump |
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Why not just attach gdb to the running process?
Matt Dharm
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, The Lost Wizard wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > > On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Christophe leroy wrote: > > >Is there a way to make a core dump of a program without killing it, > > >in order to make some debugging while the program is still running ? > > > > kill -SEGV <pid> > > > > or > > > > kill -11 <pid> > > > > or > > > > killall -SEGV <process name> > > > > I believe that will do it, so long as coredumps are not disabled. > > No, that won't do it. It will terminate the process. My understanding of > the question is that he wanted to get a core dump and leave the process > running. > > I have a couple of situations where that would be handy as well. > > William Astle > "Floppity, floppity, flip / The mouse on the mobius strip; / The strip > revolved, / The mouse dissolved / In a chronodimensional skip." > > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.12 > GCS/M/S d- s+:+ !a C++ UL++++$ P++ L+++ !E W++ !N w--- !O !M PS PE V-- Y+ > PGP t+@ 5++ X !R tv+@ b+++@ !DI D? G e++ h+ y? > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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