Hi, * Daniel Baulig wrote (2006-05-24 01:29): >Thorsten Haude wrote: >>* Daniel Baulig wrote (2006-05-23 20:10): >>>Thorsten Haude wrote: >>It's a file (aptly called 'core', sometimes 'core.$PID') created by >>the OS if a process crashes. The file contains information about the >>process the moment it crashed and can help in debugging. This is also >>called 'throwing a core' or 'core dump'. >> >>The file is not always created for various reasons. If it is not, >>please send the result of 'ulimit -a'. > >I suppose the file should be created in the user's home directory, which > it is not.
No, sorry, it's created in the process' working directory.
>core file size (blocks, -c) 0
This means that no cores are created. If you want to change this, just
enter 'ulimit -c 200000' (or another large number) before you start
the process which would crash.
>However, I just figured, that the term "crash" might not be 100%
>correct. Actually nedit does not crash totally, but sort of hang. I
>cannot press any control elements, and it will not redraw any elements
>anymore. However, I have to kill it to get rid of it completely.
Most signals dump core, so you might try to raise the core limit and
try again.
Thorsten
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