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Core dumps (was Re: Starting an application from GDB prompt)

From	Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject	Core dumps (was Re: Starting an application from GDB prompt)
Date	2012-05-31 21:39 +0000
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On Thu, 2012-05-31, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
...
> OTOH, a much better solution, especially since it also enables you to
> get information about uncontrolled crashes, use ulimit -c to ensure
> that you get a coredump despite your 'upstream distribution provider'
> has silently disabled that lest someone could expect him to fix the
> crashes in his software.

The same upstream distribution provider who also enabled core.<pid>
file names, thus ensuring that the buggy software fills the disk if
you /do/ enable core dumps ;-)

But seriously, do any Linux distributions enable core dumps by
default?  Debian does not, and I'm not sure it ever did.  I hear some
of the *BSDs do ...

/Jorgen

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Starting an application from GDB prompt Hari Prasath <gehariprasath@gmail.com> - 2012-05-30 15:55 -0700
  Re: Starting an application from GDB prompt Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2012-05-31 14:20 +0100
    Core dumps (was Re: Starting an application from GDB prompt) Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-05-31 21:39 +0000
      Re: Core dumps (was Re: Starting an application from GDB prompt) "Ersek, Laszlo" <lacos@caesar.elte.hu> - 2012-06-01 01:14 +0200
        Re: Core dumps (was Re: Starting an application from GDB prompt) "Ersek, Laszlo" <lacos@caesar.elte.hu> - 2012-06-01 01:44 +0200
        Re: Core dumps Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2012-06-01 16:16 +0100
          Re: Core dumps Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-06-04 21:22 +0000
            Re: Core dumps "Ersek, Laszlo" <lacos@caesar.elte.hu> - 2012-06-05 00:29 +0200
              Re: Core dumps Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-06-05 06:55 +0000
                Re: Core dumps Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2012-06-05 15:03 +0100
                Re: Core dumps Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-06-06 06:56 +0000
                Re: Core dumps "Ersek, Laszlo" <lacos@caesar.elte.hu> - 2012-06-06 18:25 +0200
                shell init files (was: Core dumps) Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2012-06-06 18:30 +0100
                Re: shell init files (was: Core dumps) "Ersek, Laszlo" <lacos@caesar.elte.hu> - 2012-06-06 21:45 +0200
                Re: shell init files Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2012-06-06 21:17 +0100

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