Re: Dumping Core on Purpose

["C.J.LAWSON" <C.J.Lawson@Cranfield.ac.uk>]

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?
> 
There remains the issue of if one cannot fork a child process ... this
seems more likely than not being able do dump.

--Jon.


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