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Re: feature request: mmap support

From: Howard Chu <hyc at symas dot com>
To: gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:06:22 +0100
Subject: Re: feature request: mmap support
References: <ff8d449a-54ff-4f7d-b035-1ad2ab6fd39a@symas.com>

Howard Chu wrote:
> On Linux, mmap'd files aren't included in the contents of a core dump.

^^ By default. Yes you can enable it, but again, that's a waste of space.

> That's all
> great, because it'd just be writing out data that's already on the filesystem anyway.
> 
> But when attaching to the core file, addresses that would have resided in the mmap'd
> file are all inaccessible/invalid. It would be nice to have a command to attach
> mmap'd files to their respective virtual address in the coredump.

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  -- Howard Chu
  CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
  Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
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References:
- feature request: mmap support
  - From: Howard Chu

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