[PATCH 3/3] gcore/doc: fix mistake in the gcore man page

Andrew Burgess
2025-03-06T17:12:08Z

The gcore man page says that the default prefix for a generated core
file will be 'gcore', i.e. we'll create files like 'gcore.pid'. In
reality the default is 'core'.

As far as I can tell, the default has been 'core' for years, and the
docs used to say that the default was 'core', but the docs were
changed by mistake in commit:

commit 129eb0f1f16dc7a49799a024a7bcb109d954a1e7
Date: Fri Jul 27 00:52:23 2018 -0400

Improve gcore manpage and clarify "-o" option

So, lets bring the docs back inline with the code.
---
gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index a1ae45c5121..5a8f8bddc05 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -51414,7 +51414,7 @@ gcore man
when composing the file names of the core dumps. The file name is
composed as @file{@var{prefix}.@var{pid}}, where @var{pid} is the
process ID of the running program being analyzed by @command{gcore}.
-If not specified, @var{prefix} defaults to @var{gcore}.
+If not specified, @var{prefix} defaults to @var{core}.

@item -d @var{directory}
Use @var{directory} as the data directory when invoking @value{GDBN} for running
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