Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 23:29:29 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: andrew@ugh.net.au Cc: Nicolas Leonard <nicolas.leonard@animaths.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to generate a core dump explicily Message-ID: <3990EC39.8D12BE22@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008091206450.16452-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>
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andrew@ugh.net.au wrote:
>
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Nicolas Leonard wrote:
>
> > I would like to generate a core dump 'explicitly' in
> > my program. How can that be done ?
>
> Call abort(3)
If you want to coredump it "interactively", hit your QUIT character
(usually ^\). To do the same from another tty, or to a background or
daemon process, send it a QUIT signal with kill(1).
--
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Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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