Re: core files

Michael Shields (shields@msrl.com)
31 Dec 1998 06:22:44 +0000

In article <199812301013.LAA20320@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz>,
Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:
> On the other side, if some kind of corename patch makes it into the kernel
> and administrator chooses to put all core files e.g to
> /tmp/cores/core.<pid>, then some ucore program can poll on /tmp/cores and
> once it notices a new file created there, just spawn a debugger or whatever
> the user wants (not that I'd like to do it on my machines).

This doesn't buy you anything. You want to be able to start up the
debugger on the dying process, *before* state is lost (fds closed, &c.)

-- 
Shields.


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