Re: [ILUG] [OT] Forcing core dumps

From: John P . Looney (valen at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Tue 28 Sep 1999 - 14:08:23 IST


On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 01:59:20PM +0100, Mel mentioned:
> I'm messing with someone elses code which has a lot of traps for segsegv
> signals are set up which I want to avoid. How can I force a program to
> core dump in the signal handler? I can't just remove the signal(SIGSEGV
> calls because half of them are in libraries. I want a bloody core dump so
> I can figure out why the damn program is crashing!

 Try doing a "kill -6" on it.

Kate

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