Attaching and inspecting crash with gdb

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:32:34PM +0100, Marco Molteni wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:03:58 +0100
> Devrim Erdem <devrim.erdem@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way of attaching and application and ask gdb to write a
> > core dump ( or any kind of dump of data ) which I could later load in
> > gdb to debug the problem remotely.
> 
> On BSD systems (don't know about others) there is gcore
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gcore

It is also provided by recent versions of GDB on a number of systems.
Devrim, take a look at the "generate-core-file" command.

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Daniel Jacobowitz