[SLL] Is gcore for linux possible?

[Phil Hughes]

The amazing Leland Olds wrote:
> Gcore is a program that allows you get a core dump from a running
> process without causing it to abort. It also tags the generated core
> file with the process id. This program is available for solaris, and a
> number of other Unixes, but apparently not Linux.
> 
> Would it be possible to do something like this for Linux by reading
> from the files in /proc/<pid>/* and formatting that information
> appropriately?
> 
> Where is some good documentation of the contents of proc, and the
> format of core files? Is there a better approach to doing this?

You can attach gdb to a running process.  For example, if you are running
snarf and it's pid is 345, you can say
	gdb snarf 345
and it attaches.  It seems like this will get you the same functionality.


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