Attaching and inspecting crash with gdb

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 15:47:06 +0100
> From: Devrim Erdem <devrim.erdem@gmail.com>
> 
> I agree that a core dump would be great.
> 
> But, my customer is using a Redhat system which doesn't by default
> write any core dumps. Additionally, neither I nor they can tweak the
> system to enable core writing. (Don't know how to do. )
> 
> If somebody knows how to enable core dumps without admin permissions
> or sys. tweak, I would be glad to try.

In my experience, it is usually a shell setting, so e.g. a command
such as ulimit should solve this.