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

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

[Michael Snyder]

Hmmm, what section of the manual would you think the
"generate-core-file"
command should go in?

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

[Eli Zaretskii]

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

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

[Michael Snyder]

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).

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

[Andrew Cagney]

>> 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).


For what its worth, the save command (assuming it gets off the ground 
:-) will also need a home.  It would make sense for that comand to also 
go in the same section as gcore.

Andrew

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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 16:00:32 -0500
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
> > 
> > I was looking for a section involving files, but of course
> > gdb does not write very many files (mostly reads them).
> 
> For what its worth, the save command (assuming it gets off the ground 
> :-) will also need a home.  It would make sense for that comand to also 
> go in the same section as gcore.

Then perhaps make a new section about commands which read and write
auxiliary files, and put the docs of gcore there.  The others will be
added as they are coded.