Re: [patch] solib-svr4.c - allow reading linkmap info from core without executable

Aleksandar Ristovski
2009-06-19T14:16:58Z

Pedro Alves wrote:
>
> I was thinking on pushing the elf check a bit down instead,
> like the below. However, having now tested this, I see that
> this doesn't work in most of the cores I have here (x86_64-linux).
> In most cases I see, the segment that would contain the program
> headers, as indicated by auxv info, isn't included in the
> core...
>
> (objdump -h)
> Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn
> :
> 6 load1 00000000 0000000000400000 0000000000000000 000008f8 2**0
> ALLOC, READONLY, CODE
> :
>

It is probably not dumped separately in a note, but if it
is a full core, then it should be retrievable.

This is the case I have with Neutrino core files.