On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Brian White wrote: : > Assuming that forking a "kamakazi" child is not an acceptable : > solution, is there some way of capturing the image of the process from : > the kernal? : : Hmmm... That's interesting. Assuming there is no library/system call : to force a core dump, I could fork a child and then make the child access : mem at 0xFFFFFFFF to cause a segfault and dump core. Would that work?
Couldn't you send the child a SIGABRT? Stevens's APUE seems to indicate this is the way to go, or call the abort() functionB -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
