Mirror of the gdb mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Philippe Blain via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Recovering a core dump deleted while debugging
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:53:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D9652366-DEAD-429F-97DE-0E581749D1E3@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I’m debugging a core dump in GDB and some other process deleted the directory where the core dump was. Is there anyway to recover it?

I tried 'lsof -p $pid' and looking in /proc/$pid/fd/ but the core dump does not appear there. I’m guessing GDB closes the file after it loads everything into memory ?

Thanks,

Philippe. 

             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-26 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-26 11:53 Philippe Blain via Gdb [this message]
2026-08-28 19:23 ` Tom Tromey
2026-09-01 11:03   ` Philippe Blain via Gdb

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=D9652366-DEAD-429F-97DE-0E581749D1E3@gmail.com \
    --to=gdb@sourceware.org \
    --cc=levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox