07-23-2012
'core' is the name...
- by default, the global option is disabled - mainly because no one reserves a few GiBs for core dumps (and no one expects to have them created very often).
- if you know that you will have many core files a day, then you definitely have a reason to use the global option.
- however, if your system is 'normal' (no special or fancy stuff), and you can say you are subscribing to the very same average core file occurences as everyone else, then you can use the 'per process' option without further concerns.
HTH
good luck, and success !
alexandre botao
"comets never dodge"
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gcore(1) User Commands gcore(1)
NAME
gcore - get core images of running processes
SYNOPSIS
gcore [-pgF] [-o filename] [-c content] process-id...
DESCRIPTION
The gcore utility creates a core image of each specified process. By default, the name of the core image file for the process whose process
ID is process-id will be core.process-id.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-c content Produces core image files with the specified content. The content description uses the same tokens as in coreadm(1M). The
-c option does not apply to cores produced due to the -p or -g flags.
-F Force. Grabs the target process even if another process has control.
-g Produces core image files in the global core file repository with the global content as configured by coreadm(1M). The com-
mand will fail if the user does not have permissions to the global core file repository.
-o filename Substitutes filename in place of core as the first part of the name of the core image files. filename can contain the same
tokens to be expanded as the paths in coreadm(1M).
-p Produces a core image file in the process-specific location with the process-specific content for each process as config-
ured by coreadm(1M). The command will fail if the user does not have permissions to the per-process core file repository.
OPERANDS
The following operand is supported:
process-id process ID
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 On success.
non-zero On failure, such as non-existent process ID.
FILES
core.process-id core images
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWtoo |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |See below. |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
Command Syntax is Evolving. Output Format(s) are Unstable.
SEE ALSO
kill(1), coreadm(1M), setrlimit(2), core(4), proc(4), attributes(5)
NOTES
gcore is unaffected by the setrlimit(2) system call using the RLIMIT_CORE value.
SunOS 5.10 11 Feb 2004 gcore(1)