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From: Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: collecting data from a coring process
To: Paul Marquess <Paul.Marquess@owmobility.com>
Cc: Dmitry Samersoff <dms@samersoff.net>, vijay nag <vijunag@gmail.com>, 	"gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
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On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Paul Marquess
<Paul.Marquess@owmobility.com> wrote:
> From: Dmitry Samersoff [mailto:dms@samersoff.net]
>
>> Paul,
>>
>> >> 1) Why not dump the information that you are looking for into a file
>> >> in the process signal handler ?
>> >
>> > Would love to, but I have no idea what state the process is in once
>> > the SEGV has been triggered.
[...]
> I know we've had problems with signal handlers causing problems, thus my preference to find a way to have the signal handler code do as little as possible and get all the data collection handled at arm's length by gdb.

You could just spawn (and wait for) your GDB-launching script from the
signal handler; then, the process & stack will still be around for
GDB.  I think this is even legal!