Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

[Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> 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 0xFFFFFFFF to cause a segfault and dump core.  Would that work?

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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