Re: core files (was Re: 2.1.131: some quality thoughts)

Chris Pirih (proverbs@wolfenet.com)
Fri, 25 Dec 1998 06:28:06 -0800


> > "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> said:
>
> >> Long term, I think the whole core file idea needs to be tossed in
> >> favor of just starting a debugger.
[ arguments pro and con deleted ]

How about starting up a debugger on the faulting process, and
making the default "debugger" be a simple core-dumper? The
core-dumper could be configured to generate whatever file
name you want, and the kernel wouldn't have to know anything
about core files at all.

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