Re: [tlug] What is a core dump?

[BOTi <9915104t@example.com>]

Nguyen Hung Takeshi wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> 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.
Core dumps can be disabled (with ulimit) if you don't want them, some
are few megs in size.


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