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* Re: Core Dump Report
  2003-05-14 12:25 Core Dump Report Chandrasekhar
@ 2003-05-14 12:16 ` Ahmed Masud
  2003-05-14 18:49   ` Daniele Pala
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ahmed Masud @ 2003-05-14 12:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Chandrasekhar; +Cc: linux-kernel



On Wed, 14 May 2003, Chandrasekhar wrote:

> Hi Experts,
>
> I want to obtain the core dump information from the running kernel.
> How can I do so by reading the /proc/kcore file.?
>
> Regards
> Chandrasekhar
> -
>

For all intents and purposes you can treat /proc/kcore as a coredump file
:) . Have a look at kgdb and related tools to interpret it correctly.

Cheers,

Ahmed.


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* Core Dump Report
@ 2003-05-14 12:25 Chandrasekhar
  2003-05-14 12:16 ` Ahmed Masud
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Chandrasekhar @ 2003-05-14 12:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Hi Experts,

I want to obtain the core dump information from the running kernel.
How can I do so by reading the /proc/kcore file.?

Regards
Chandrasekhar

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* Re: Core Dump Report
  2003-05-14 12:16 ` Ahmed Masud
@ 2003-05-14 18:49   ` Daniele Pala
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Daniele Pala @ 2003-05-14 18:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ahmed Masud; +Cc: linux-kernel

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:16:11AM -0400, Ahmed Masud wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 14 May 2003, Chandrasekhar wrote:
> 
> > Hi Experts,
> >
> > I want to obtain the core dump information from the running kernel.
> > How can I do so by reading the /proc/kcore file.?
> >
> > Regards
> > Chandrasekhar
> > -
> >
> 
> For all intents and purposes you can treat /proc/kcore as a coredump file
> :) . Have a look at kgdb and related tools to interpret it correctly.
> 

yeah, except that /proc/kcore is "dynamic" so you can't always trust the gdb cached information.

> Cheers,
> 
> Ahmed.
>

Cheers,
	
	Daniele 


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