magic file entry to understand core dumps

Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
Tue, 16 Jul 1996 17:49:28 PDT


Does anyone have a magic line to correctly decode a linux elf
core dump?

I looked in gdb but got pretty confused...(but it seems to understand
the core file).

It would be worthwhile to write a cheezy program to print the command
name of the core dump if file can't do it...

marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
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