What creates corefiles?

[Kei Sakamoto]

Thank you for your suggestion. I'll look into the kernel.

Kei Sakamoto

From: "Andreas Schwab" <schwab@suse.de>
To: "Kei Sakamoto" <sakamoto.kei@renesas.com>
Cc: <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: What creates corefiles?


"Kei Sakamoto" <sakamoto.kei@renesas.com> writes:

> So I'd like to check whether corefiles are correct. But I don't
> know what creates corefiles. (Linux kernel? GLIBC?)

It's the kernel.

> Would anyone suggest which source files I should look into?

Look at fs/binfmt_elf.c in the kernel sources.

Andreas.

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