Re: Dumping core on windows?

[Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>]

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.)

Brian