Re: [tlug] What is a core dump?

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

BOTi wrote:
> Nguyen Hung Takeshi wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have a question:
>>
>>What is a core dump?
> 
> 
> Your program takes a crap. ;)
> I mean it dies for some reason usually printing "Segmentation fault" and
> it's allocated memory is written to a file for debugging purposes. You
> can then use gdb on this file to see what happened.

Yeah, SIGSEGV (segmentation violation AKA segmentation fault AKA
segfault) is the most common cause of a core dump, but lots of signals
produce a core. 'man signal' for more info on that.


--Josh