gcore(1)							     GNU Tools								  gcore(1)

NAME

       gcore - Generate a core file for a running process

SYNOPSIS

       gcore [-o filename] pid

DESCRIPTION

       gcore generates a core file for the process specified by its process ID, pid. By default, the core file is written to core.pid, in the cur-
       rent directory.

       -o filename
	      write core file to filename instead of core.pid

COPYING

       Copyright (C) 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

       Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this  permission  notice  are
       preserved on all copies.

       Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of  this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
       entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.

       Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the  above  conditions  for  modified
       versions,  except  that	this  permission notice may be included in translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the
       original English.

SEE ALSO

       gdb(1), core(5)

gdb 6.8 							     May 2007								  gcore(1)