Re: generating a core file

[Kip Macy <kmacy@fsmware.com>]

On solaris and BSD there is gcore. I assume such a thing can be found
for linux and that it can be modified to write the output to a socket
instead of a file.

I wrote a checkpoint/restore facility for a BSD a few months back, the
checkpointing part was just an extension to core dump with some extra
interfaces exported. If gcore won't do the trick you could add a
system call that would take a file descriptor and then pass that to the
core dump routine.


				-Kip

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, David Carlton wrote:

> This is quite off-topic, but are there any programs out there that can
> generate a core file from a stopped process, and write that core file
> to a pipe or send it over the network somehow?  We're having issues
> debugging seg faults on machines without local disks, and for various
> reasons we'd rather not remotely mount disks on these machines,
> either.
>
> David Carlton
> carlton@kealia.com
>