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GCORE(1) BSD General Commands Manual GCORE(1) NAME gcore -- get core images of running process SYNOPSIS gcore [-f] [-s] [-c core] [executable] pid DESCRIPTION The gcore utility creates a core image of the specified process, suitable for use with gdb(1). By default, the core is written to the file "core._pid_". The process identifier, pid, must be given on the command line. The following options are available: -c Write the core file to the specified file instead of "core._pid_". -f Dumps all available segments, excluding only malformed and un- dumpable segments. Unlike the default invocation, this flag dumps mappings of devices which may invalidate the state of de- vice transactions or trigger other unexpected behavior. As a re- sult, this flag should only be used when the behavior of the ap- plication and any devices it has mapped is fully understood and any side effects can be controlled or tolerated. -s Stop the process while gathering the core image, and resume it when done. This guarantees that the resulting core dump will be in a consistent state. The process is resumed even if it was al- ready stopped. The same effect can be achieved manually with kill(1). FILES core.<pid> the core image HISTORY A gcore utility appeared in 4.2BSD. BUGS Because of the ptrace(2) usage gcore may not work with processes which are actively being investigated with truss(1) or gdb(1). Additionally, interruptable sleeps may exit with EINTR. The gcore utility is not compatible with the original 4.2BSD version. BSD July 14, 2010 BSD
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