Re: Dumping Core on Purpose
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 fork a child and then make the child access
: mem at 0xFFFFFFFF to cause a segfault and dump core. Would that work?
Couldn't you send the child a SIGABRT? Stevens's APUE seems to indicate
this is the way to go, or call the abort() functionB
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