Core dumps

[Russell Shaw]

Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>$russell@home~: ulimit
>>$unlimited
>>
>>What else can i try?
> 
> What shell do you use?

russell@home~: bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 > I use zsh, and I have to use "ulimit -c" to
> modify the core-file size:
> 
>         %ulimit
>         unlimited
>         %ulimit -a
>         cpu time (seconds)         unlimited
>         file size (blocks)         unlimited
>         data seg size (kbytes)     unlimited
>         stack size (kbytes)        8192
>         core file size (blocks)    0
>         unlimited
>         processes                  4093
>         file descriptors           1024
>         locked-in-memory size (kb) unlimited
>         memory size (kb)           unlimited
>         file locks                 unlimited
>         %ulimit -c 2000000
>         %ulimit -a
>         cpu time (seconds)         unlimited
>         file size (blocks)         unlimited
>         data seg size (kbytes)     unlimited
>         stack size (kbytes)        8192
>         core file size (blocks)    2000000
>         unlimited
>         processes                  4093
>         file descriptors           1024
>         locked-in-memory size (kb) unlimited
>         memory size (kb)           unlimited
>         file locks                 unlimited
> 

russell@home~: ulimit -a
core file size        (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size         (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size             (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory     (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size       (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                    (-n) 1024
pipe size          (512 bytes, -p) 8
stack size            (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time             (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes            (-u) unlimited
virtual memory        (kbytes, -v) unlimited


Well that seems to say it all;)

"man ulimit" has a useless man page. However, i just
tried "help ulimit" which shows all the options;)

The backtrace in gdb is working correctly this time.
I seemed to get core files sometimes, despite not
having set ulimit -c. Maybe gdb was doing that.