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Subject: docs/26728: [patch] FreeBSD Developers' Handbook: dumping core
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>Number:         26728
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [patch] FreeBSD Developers' Handbook: dumping core
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 20 02:50:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Edwin Groothuis
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
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>Environment:

    $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/developers-handbook/tools/chapter.sgml,v 1.3 2001/04/09 09:26:16 nik Exp $

>Description:

    The FreeBSD Developers' Handbook talks about one way of dumping
    core, but there are two more possible ways to do it.

>How-To-Repeat:

    n/a

>Fix:
--- chapter.sgml.old    Fri Apr 20 11:25:12 2001
+++ chapter.sgml        Fri Apr 20 11:37:15 2001
@@ -978,6 +978,16 @@
              infinite loop, for instance.  If your program happens to
              trap <symbol>SIGABRT</symbol>, there are several other
              signals which have a similar effect.</para>
+
+           <para>If you want to create a core dump from inside
+             your program, you can call the abort() function. See
+             the man page of abort(3) about this.</para>
+
+           <para>If you want to create a core dump from outside
+             your program, but doesn't want it to end, you can
+             use the gcore program. See the man page of gcore(1)
+             about this.</para>
+
          </answer>
        </qandaentry>
       </qandaset>

	

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