jm> Works for me:
jm> lunar:~> make test
jm> cc test.c -o test
jm> ./test
jm> lunar:~> ./test
jm> Floating exception (core dumped)
jm> lunar:~> file core
jm> core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file i386 (386 and up) Version 1
jm> lunar:~> cat test.c
jm> main()
jm> {
jm> printf("%d\n", 0/0);
jm> }
jm> lunar:~>
jm> Marty Leisner graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge:
>>
>> 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...
I think he was looking more for the output that Solaris has:
js@kraken$ ./test
Arithmetic Exception (core dumped)
js@kraken$ file core
core: ELF 32-bit MSB core file SPARC Version 1, from 'test'
^^^^^^^^^^^
This has the name of the offending command in the output file.
Johnie
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