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Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 13:05:12 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.3.3, dumper.exe, question
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On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 05:11:16PM +0400, egor duda wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Friday, 07 September, 2001 Christopher Faylor cgf AT redhat DOT com wrote:
>
>CF> I'm going to be including dumper.exe with the next version of cygwin.
>CF> I've been meaning to do this for a long time and I keep forgetting.
>
>CF> I'm going to mention this in the release notes:
>
>CF> - dumper.exe now comes with cygwin releases by default.  With dumper.exe
>CF>   you can actually have linux produce linux-style core dumps.  To use,
>
>CF>       set CYGWIN=error_start=c:/cygwin/bin/dumper.cmd
>
>CF>   Then if you cygwin application enters into a state where a core dump
>CF>   would be produced under linux (e.g., SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, etc.) dumper.exe
>CF>   will be called to produce it.  You can then use gdb to inspect the
>
>CF> Does this seem correct?  I will include a dumper.cmd file which just
>CF> has this in it:
>
>CF> dumper -c %1 %2
>
>CF> However wouldn't it make sense for dumper to take the same arguments as
>CF> gdb?  If there are two arguments then the first is a filename and the
>CF> second is a pid.
>
>CF> Then I wouldn't need to create a dumper.cmd file.
>
>i've got no objections to this. i've patched dumper sources in my
>local tree to avoid the need to '-c', if nobody's against it, i'll
>check it in.

Go ahead.  I think this make sense.  It's your program so you get to
decide on these things...

cgf