Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261241AbTENThS (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 15:37:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261265AbTENThR (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 15:37:17 -0400 Received: from smtp1.libero.it ([193.70.192.51]:36797 "EHLO smtp1.libero.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261241AbTENThQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 15:37:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 21:49:20 +0300 From: Daniele Pala To: Ahmed Masud Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Core Dump Report Message-ID: <20030514184920.GA390@libero.it> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 847 Lines: 35 On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:16:11AM -0400, Ahmed Masud wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 May 2003, Chandrasekhar wrote: > > > Hi Experts, > > > > I want to obtain the core dump information from the running kernel. > > How can I do so by reading the /proc/kcore file.? > > > > Regards > > Chandrasekhar > > - > > > > For all intents and purposes you can treat /proc/kcore as a coredump file > :) . Have a look at kgdb and related tools to interpret it correctly. > yeah, except that /proc/kcore is "dynamic" so you can't always trust the gdb cached information. > Cheers, > > Ahmed. > Cheers, Daniele - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/