Re: Dumping core on windows?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 05:38:45PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Ben Greear wrote:
>>Is there a way to get the program name programatically so that this
>>works with any application?  For instance, I'm using this value for
>>Debugger:
>
>Not that I know of.  Of course, you could easily write a wrapper for
>dumper that uses the PID to get the image name of the faulting process,
>and calls dumper with that filename.  Or just patch dumper to do this.
>
>>Also, is there a way to cause a fault in a program for testing, similar
>>to 'kill -11 pid' ?
>
>You can just run dumper directly with the pid of the running process to
>generate a core file without causing a fault.  However this will cause
>the process to terminate (something about a win32 limitation of not
>being able to detach from a process without killing it.)

This limitation does not exist on XP or greater.  Corinna Vinschen modified
gdb to take advantage of that fact.

See DebugSetProcessKillOnExit.

cgf