From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4305 invoked by alias); 22 Mar 2004 19:17:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4259 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2004 19:17:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Mar 2004 19:17:30 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E172B92; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:17:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <405F3BC6.1080502@gnu.org> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:55:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Carlton Cc: gdb Subject: Re: generating a core file References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00205.txt.bz2 > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:24:11 -0800, David Carlton said: > > >>> 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? > > > I guess it's not completely off-topic, actually; it might be nice if > there were a mention of generate-core-file in the GDB info pages. I > just tried using that command together with a named pipe, but it > complained a lot about illegal seeks; is it inherently difficult to > generate a core file without random-access files? What's needed to make gcore work with a remote target? Andrew