Re: [RFA] Don't use thread_db on corefiles

Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-12-15T01:14:17Z

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 03:39:20PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > I'll do that. A binary is at:
> > http://www.them.org/~drow/mtc.tgz
> > (The core file is a 23MB sparse file because of the unmapped user
> > stacks. Careful where you unpack it.)
>
> Oops -- Daniel, I think you sent the wrong corefile. The one in
> the tarball is only 1.4 megabytes, and was generated by "gdb ./lotsa_um
> core".
> Probably you ran gdb in the directory and it dropped core, overwriting
> the corefile that you meant to send. ;-(

<falls over laughing>

Yes, so I did. Oops. I'm absolutely bewildered as to how that
happened - since the core file in that directory on my desktop is the
right one, and older than the tarfile I made!

Please look at http://www.them.org/~drow/mtc2.tgz, which is the proper
core.