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Re: [RFA] add gcore to NEWS
- From: Michael Snyder <msnyder at redhat dot com>
- To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at cygnus dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, cagney at redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:27:12 -0800
- Subject: Re: [RFA] add gcore to NEWS
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
- References: <200201152002.g0FK2Uo22392@reddwarf.cygnus.com>
Michael Snyder wrote:
>
> 2002-01-15 Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
>
> * NEWS: Add item for new 'gcore' command.
Committed.
>
> Index: NEWS
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
> retrieving revision 1.50
> diff -p -r1.50 NEWS
> *** NEWS 2002/01/11 01:46:17 1.50
> --- NEWS 2002/01/15 20:07:01
> ***************
> *** 3,8 ****
> --- 3,16 ----
>
> *** Changes since GDB 5.1:
>
> + * New command "generate-core-file" (or "gcore").
> +
> + This new gdb command allows the user to drop a core file of the
> + child process state at any time. So far it's been implemented
> + only for Linux and Solaris, but should be relatively easily
> + ported to other hosts. Argument is core file name (defaults
> + to core.<pid>).
> +
> * New command line option
>
> GDB now accepts --pid or -p followed by a process id.