12-08-2011
From man core(5):
You can send a process (via the kill command) any of the signals whose corresponding action is "core" listed in that man page. This includes:
SIGQUIT, SIGILL, SIGABRT, SIGFPE, SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGSYS, SIGTRAP, SIGXCPU, SIGXFSZ, SIGIOT,
The catch is that (1) a process can choose to ignore these signals or handle them without doing a core dump, and (2) the parent shell can limit the core dump through ulimit or other commands.
Quote:
Up to and including Linux 2.2, the default behaviour for SIGSYS, SIGXCPU, SIGXFSZ, and (on architectures other than SPARC and MIPS) SIGBUS was to terminate the process (without a core dump). (On some other Unices the default action for SIGXCPU and SIGXFSZ is to terminate the process without a core dump.) Linux 2.4 conforms to the POSIX.1-2001 requirements for these signals, terminating the process with a core dump.
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
help, what is the difference between core dump and panic dump? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: aileen
1 Replies
2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I've got a core dump in my weblogic home directory, which i have tried to debug by initiating savecore from /etc/init.d/savecore start
but savecore failed to create the two files, that is vmcore.n and vmunix.n.
savecore is enable on my server to save vmcore and vmunix in /var/crash/hostname
1)... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: hassan2
4 Replies
3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All,
is there any way to find out the optimal/would be size of the cor dump file generated by the system while a process got terminated abnormally?
Basically we have been asked to provide the size of the core dump file being generated by the administrators who maintained the UNIX boxes.... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: pushp.gahlot
4 Replies
4. Programming
by what name does a core dump file stored???
like i wrote a test code:
//dump.c
main()
{
char *p=NULL;
printf("%s",p);
}
of course the above code will produce a segmentation fault. but i cant see any file named core in my CWD. am using SUN0S 5.9 (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: vikashtulsiyan
6 Replies
5. Programming
Hi All,
May be it is a stupid question, but, I would like to know what is the advantage using a core dump file at the moment of debugging using gdb.
I know a core dump has information about the state of the application when it crashed, but, what is the difference between debugging using the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: lagigliaivan
2 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Segmentation fault(core dumped)
but I cant find core file any where. how to make it out?
I try the command:ulimit -c unlimited, I even added it to the .bashrc file.And I removed ulimit setting in /etc/init.d/function. And there's no ulimit setting in /etc/profile. And I tried sudo find /... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: vistastar
8 Replies
7. Linux
How do i get pointer to thread's local storage or thread specific data while analyzing core dump for linux ?
i use pthread_setspecific to store some data in the pthread's local stoare.
my multi threaded program on linux crashed, and i want to see what is stored in current running thread's... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: vishwasungal
2 Replies
8. Solaris
I am new to UNIX.
My Application is using c (.so files) and Java code.
My application crashes and CORE DUMP file is generated ,which is huge.
Now I want to view the CORE DUMP file to debug the application using dbx without starting process again.
By only using the CORE DUMP file and dbx ,can i... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: satde
1 Replies
9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Can any body provide me some good link to learn to create and analyze linux user mode application / kernel module core dumps? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rupeshkp728
1 Replies
10. Red Hat
Hello All,
I am new joiner of this forum.I am new to Linux shell scripting.
At present I have identified 1 application which stalls very frequently (PID is say xyz) and I am not having much information in its application log to identify the root cause of stalling. I need to take the core dump... (19 Replies)
Discussion started by: Anjan Ganguly
19 Replies
LEARN ABOUT OSF1
pthread_kill
pthread_kill(3) Library Functions Manual pthread_kill(3)
NAME
pthread_kill - Delivers a signal to a specified thread. (This routine is available only on a UNIX system.)
LIBRARY
DECthreads POSIX 1003.1c Library (libpthread.so)
SYNOPSIS
#include <pthread.h> #include <signal.h>
int pthread_kill(
pthread_t thread,
int sig);
STANDARDS
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows:
IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995, POSIX System Application Program Interface
PARAMETERS
Thread to receive a signal request. A signal request.
DESCRIPTION
This routine sends a signal to the specified target thread thread. Any signal defined to stop, continue, or terminate will stop or termi-
nate the process, even though it can be handled by the thread. For example, SIGTERM terminates all threads in the process, even though it
can be handled by the target thread.
Specifying a sig argument of zero (0) causes this routine to validate the thread argument but not to deliver any signal.
The name of the "kill" routine is sometimes misleading, because many signals do not terminate a thread.
The various signals are as follows: SIGHUP, SIGPIPE, SIGTTIN SIGINT, SIGALRM, SIGTTOU SIGQUIT, SIGTERM, SIGIO SIGTRAP, SIGUSR1, SIGXCPU
SIGABRT, SIGSYS, SIGXFSZ SIGEMT, SIGURG, SIGVTALRM SIGFPE, SIGSTOP, SIGPROF SIGKILL, SIGTSTP, SIGINFO SIGBUS, SIGCONT, SIGUSR1 SIGSEGV,
SIGCHLD, SIGUSR2
If this routine does not execute successfully, no signal is sent.
RETURN VALUES
If an error condition occurs, this routine returns an integer value indicating the type of error. Possible return values are as follows:
Successful completion. The value of sig is invalid or unsupported signal value. The value of thread does not specify an existing thread.
ERRORS
None
RELATED INFORMATION
Manuals: Guide to DECthreads and Programmer's Guide
delim off
pthread_kill(3)