Re: what is this core?

[Pankaj Kaushal <apenguinhead@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:05:49AM +0530, Amit Soni wrote:
>
>Whenever u do evil things with an application. Or an application is weak in
>its self.
>It gets  so scared. It dies(abonormally) ;o).
>core is the corpse.
>Core is the exact memory dump of  the application that was once happily
>running.
>You can do a post moterm of this corpse to find the cause of  death.
One more observation

Last time I encountered a core dump was when I was on
Red hat aaa.. 1998 may be .
I think sumthin magical has to be done to dump core in debian
or the service has 2 be started or sumthin.
any pointers anybun

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