How to open the core dump file in linux?

 
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Old 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.


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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.
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gcore(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  gcore(1)

NAME
gcore -- get core images of running processes SYNOPSIS
gcore [-s] [-v] [-b size] [-o path | -c pathformat] pid DESCRIPTION
The gcore program creates a core file image of the process specified by pid. The resulting core file can be used with a debugger, e.g. lldb(1), to examine the state of the process. The following options are available: -s Suspend the process while the core file is captured. -v Report progress on the dump as it proceeds. -b size Limit the size of the core file to size MiBytes. The following options control the name of the core file: -o path Write the core file to path. -c pathformat Write the core file to pathformat. The pathformat string is treated as a pathname that may contain various special characters which cause the interpolation of strings representing specific attributes of the process into the name. Each special character is introduced by the % character. The format characters and their meanings are: N The name of the program being dumped, as reported by ps(1). U The uid of the process being dumped, converted to a string. P The pid of the process being dumped, converted to a string. T The time when the core file was taken, converted to ISO 8601 format. % Output a percent character. The default file name used by gcore is %N-%P-%T. By default, the core file will be written to a directory whose name is determined from the kern.corefile MIB. This can be printed or modified using sysctl(8). The directory where the core file is to be written must be accessible to the owner of the target process. gcore will not overwrite an existing file, nor will it create missing directories in the path. EXIT_STATUS The gcore utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. FILES
/cores/%N-%P-%T default pathname for the corefile. BUGS
With the -b flag, gcore writes out as much data as it can up to the specified limit, even if that results in an incomplete core image. Such a partial core dump may confuse subsequent programs that attempt to parse the contents of such files. SEE ALSO
lldb(1), core(5), Mach-O(5), sysctl(8), sudo(8). Darwin May 31, 2019 Darwin