Program Snapshot

[Net Llama!]

On 09/19/03 19:01, Kurt Wall wrote:

> Quoth Ben Duncan:
> 
>>Is there a way to do a "core" image/snapshot of a running program?
> 
> 
> Probably. I don't quite understand what you mean, though.

Assuming that you have 'ulimit -c unlimited' for the session that the 
binary was started in and the binary is compiled with debugging symbols, 
then sure:
kill -15 <PID>

you'll get a core dump.


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