Re: Core Dump Report

From: Daniele Pala (dandario@libero.it)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 13:49:20 EST


On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:16:11AM -0400, Ahmed Masud wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 14 May 2003, Chandrasekhar wrote:
>
> > Hi Experts,
> >
> > I want to obtain the core dump information from the running kernel.
> > How can I do so by reading the /proc/kcore file.?
> >
> > Regards
> > Chandrasekhar
> > -
> >
>
> For all intents and purposes you can treat /proc/kcore as a coredump file
> :) . Have a look at kgdb and related tools to interpret it correctly.
>

yeah, except that /proc/kcore is "dynamic" so you can't always trust the gdb cached information.

> Cheers,
>
> Ahmed.
>

Cheers,
        
        Daniele

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