Re: Doco for "generate-core-file" -- where?

Michael Snyder
2002-01-04T20:25:16Z

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 18:23:06 -0800
> > From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
> >
> > Hmmm, what section of the manual would you think the
> > "generate-core-file"
> > command should go in?
>
> We could put it into "Killing the child process", perhaps after
> changing the section's name a bit.

My first thought too -- only this really has nothing to do
with killing the child. We can take a corefile snapshot of
a living child, and then continue to run/debug the child.

> Or we could make it a separate
> section in the "Running" chapter.

I like that better. This is something you would do while
running the child. OTOH, so is almost everything else.

I was looking for a section involving files, but of course
gdb does not write very many files (mostly reads them).