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From: Darius DOT Clynes AT cec DOT eu DOT int
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: gdb readable core dumps?
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:59:01 +0200
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>yes. cygwin includes special utility called dumper.exe which can be
>used to create core dumps. run it with
>
>'dumper <pid>'

what an optimistic answer! i thought the answer would be a firm no.

where can I download the dumper.exe (or the sources for it).
it is not included in the cygwin 1.1.0 i am using. 



>-----Original Message-----
>From: egor duda [mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru]
>Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:45 PM
>To: CLYNES Darius (SCIC)
>Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Subject: Re: gdb readable core dumps?
>
>
>Hi!
>
>Thursday, 28 June, 2001 Darius DOT Clynes AT cec DOT eu DOT int 
>Darius DOT Clynes AT cec DOT eu DOT int wrote:
>
>
>DCcei> Is it possible to have crashing processes produce a core dump
>DCcei> which can then be read by gdb?
>
>yes. cygwin includes special utility called dumper.exe which can be
>used to create core dumps. run it with
>
>'dumper <pid>'
>
>and it'll create file named '.core' containing core dump of process
>with pid '<pid>'. resulting dump can be inspected with gdb.
>
>you can also make cygwin to start it automatically in case of fatal
>error in application. add
>
>'error_start=c:\path\to\dumper\utility\dumper.exe'
>
>to your CYGWIN environment variable. 'error_start option turns on
>cygwin's JIT debugging facility and allows running any program (dumper
>or gdb) in case of crash in application.
>
>in case of problems you can also search mailing list archives. they
>contains several threads regarding core dump support in cygwin.
>
>Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 
>2:5020/496.19
>
>
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