Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Brian White wrote: Assuming that forking a kamakazi child is not an acceptable solution, is there some way of capturing the image of the process from the kernal? Hmmm... That's interesting. Assuming there is no library/system call to force a core dump,

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-20 Thread Alexander
PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Dumping Core on Purpose Resent-Date: 17 Jul 1998 15:29:25 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Keith Beattie wrote: C.J.LAWSON wrote: I guess the next

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-17 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: Yes. use CTRL-\ Nope, that would kill the program... Maarten _ | TU Delft, The Netherlands, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems | |

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-17 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Brian White wrote: Yes. use CTRL-\ I've never heard of that. neither have II just tried it...it makes programs exit fast but I have yet to produce a core dump with it Actually,

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Brian White wrote: Yes. use CTRL-\ I've never heard of that. neither have II just tried it...it makes programs exit fast but I have yet to produce a core dump with it I tried it when I

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Keith Beattie wrote: C.J.LAWSON wrote: I guess the next logical question would be how to get a program to backtrack and reload the core file .. and then contiue executing Here's a wild shot at it... Assuming that forking a kamakazi child is not an acceptable

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Brian White wrote: Assuming that forking a kamakazi child is not an acceptable solution, is there some way of capturing the image of the process from the kernal? Hmmm... That's interesting. Assuming there is no library/system call to force a core dump, I could

Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Brian White
Is there any way to make a program dump core and then continue execution? Sorta like taking a snap-shot of the current program state. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Yes. use CTRL-\ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Is there any way to make a program dump core and then continue execution? Sorta like taking a snap-shot of the current program state. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) That's an interesting idea :). Let me see, I

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Brian White
Yes. use CTRL-\ I've never heard of that. Actually, though... I was looking for the program to dump core when it wanted (rather than at user request) and then be able to keep executing. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread C.J.LAWSON
I guess the next logical question would be how to get a program to backtrack and reload the core file .. and then contiue executing --J. On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Brian White wrote: Yes. use CTRL-\ I've never heard of that. Actually, though... I was looking for the program to dump core

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Joey Hess
C.J.LAWSON wrote: I guess the next logical question would be how to get a program to backtrack and reload the core file .. and then contiue executing That's what gdb is for. -- see shy jo -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 11:31:55AM -0400, Brian White wrote: Is there any way to make a program dump core and then continue execution? Sorta like taking a snap-shot of the current program state. well I have made a program dump core on purpose... how about... kill(getpid(), SIGFPE); the

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Brian White wrote: Yes. use CTRL-\ I've never heard of that. neither have II just tried it...it makes programs exit fast but I have yet to produce a core dump with it Actually, though... I was looking for the program to dump core when it

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Keith Beattie
C.J.LAWSON wrote: I guess the next logical question would be how to get a program to backtrack and reload the core file .. and then contiue executing Here's a wild shot at it... Assuming that forking a kamakazi child is not an acceptable solution, is there some way of capturing the image

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Brian White
Assuming that forking a kamakazi child is not an acceptable solution, is there some way of capturing the image of the process from the kernal? Hmmm... That's interesting. Assuming there is no library/system call to force a core dump, I could fork a child and then make the child access mem at

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Brian White wrote: Assuming that forking a kamakazi child is not an acceptable solution, is there some way of capturing the image of the process from the kernal? Hmmm... That's interesting. Assuming there is no library/system call to force a core dump, I could fork a child and then

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Brian White wrote: : Assuming that forking a kamakazi child is not an acceptable : solution, is there some way of capturing the image of the process from : the kernal? : : Hmmm... That's interesting. Assuming there is no library/system call : to force a core dump, I

Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

1998-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stephen J. Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Brian White wrote: Yes. use CTRL-\ I've never heard of that. neither have II just tried it...it makes programs exit fast but I have yet to produce a core dump with it