Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 10:13:27 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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	on Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:29:21 +0400)
Subject: Re: Adding support for core files to DJGPP
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> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:29:21 +0400
> From: egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
> 
> i implemented core files for cygwin some time ago. the core file is
> created in elf format.

Thanks for the info.

> all committed pages in process address space are written to .mem
> sections

I don't see .mem sections mentioned anywhere in the SysV ABI documents
available from http://www.sco.com/developer/devspecs/.  Did I miss
something?  Is there any other documentation about ELF available
somewhere, where these sections are documented?

> winsup/utils/dumper.cc -- utility to create core file.

Does this mean that the segfaulting application itself doesn't write
the core file?