Re: How to generate a core dump explicily

[Wes Peters]

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> 
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Nicolas Leonard wrote:
> 
> > I would like to generate a core dump 'explicitly'  in
> > my program. How can that be done ?
> 
> Call abort(3)

If you want to coredump it "interactively", hit your QUIT character
(usually ^\).  To do the same from another tty, or to a background or
daemon process, send it a QUIT signal with kill(1).

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Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
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