Re: [OT] Bonehead question about coredumps

[Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-05-01 20:54, walt wrote:
> When a userland program segfaults, what determines whether
> it also dumps core?  Is there something either the programmer
> or the user can do to force a cordump on segfault?
>
> Thanks for any clues!

You might be interested in core(5), which has a list of criteria for a 
core to be dumped. Two important factors are that the process must have 
permission to create the file and the file must not be too big.

Erik Wikström
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