Forcing C program to core dump

[Max Laier]

On Wednesday 06 December 2006 20:02, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Hello,
>     This may be obvious to some, but after some Googling (apparently
> with the wrong search terms, perhaps) and reading the gcc/gdb manpages,
> I can't seem to find out how to get a program to produce core dumps.
>     So I was wondering, is there some simple means to produce core
> dumps or a set of conditions that I need to adhere to in order to get
> the OS to core dump the progrdam???

See gcore(1) and abort(3).  sysctl -a | grep core might turn up some 
interesting sysctls.

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