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Re: generating a core file
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:48:11AM -0800, David Carlton wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:24:11 -0800, David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com> said:
>
> > This is quite off-topic, but are there any programs out there that can
> > generate a core file from a stopped process, and write that core file
> > to a pipe or send it over the network somehow?
>
> I guess it's not completely off-topic, actually; it might be nice if
> there were a mention of generate-core-file in the GDB info pages. I
Indeed. See also gdb/gcore.sh.
> just tried using that command together with a named pipe, but it
> complained a lot about illegal seeks; is it inherently difficult to
> generate a core file without random-access files?
Yes; it's certainly not insoluble but it would be very hard to make BFD
do it. You'd have to build the ELF file in memory and then write it
out.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer