On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Indraneel Mukherjee <indro.ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > I am looking to understand how core dumps are generated. I'm able to > generate application core dumps. Now i want to understand the internals of > core dump generation. > > 1. What happens internally when a segfault occurs? That depends on the application to handle it. It is just another pagefault with the reason. > > 2. Who actually stores the core dump? > > 3. How is the core dump file created? Probably you need to look at the structure :- linux_binfmt Or you can start reading the code from elf_core_dump() for elf formats or aout_core_dump() for a.out format files. Thanks - Manish > > Any pointers to understand these or the related code will be much > appreciated. > > TIA, > Indro > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
