On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 01:22:28AM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote:
> On some unix machines, when it seg faults, the compiler
> will say something segmentation fault(core dumped). Then the
> compiler will write a file core in the current dir.
> On my linux machine, when it segmentation faults, it does not
> do that. It only saids sengmentation fault, and no core is dumped.
That's not the compiler doing that - there is a limit on the size of
core files that can be dumped, and a lot of Linux systems default this
to 0. Say "ulimit -c <somenumber>" in bash to raise the limit. Note
that for security reasons you can't get core dumps from processes
running suid or sgid.
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