Re: core dumps

Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote:
Cédric Lucantis writes:

Hi,
I'd like to know how to find which program produced a particular core dump file, any idea?

,----
| (debian-unstable)jtocancipa@golem:~$ ulimit -c unlimited
| | (debian-unstable)jtocancipa@golem:~$ echo "
| #include <stdio.h>
| | int main ()
| {
| char * foo = 0;
| *foo = 'bar';
| | return 0;
| }
| | " | gcc -xc -o baz -
| | (debian-unstable)jtocancipa@golem:~$ ./baz | Segmentation fault (core dumped)
| | (debian-unstable)jtocancipa@golem:~$ gdb -batch -c ./core | grep -i generated
| Core was generated by `./baz'.
`----

HTH,


May I suggest using the 'file' command?

$ baz
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ ls
baz core
$ file core
core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, from 'baz'

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