Steve Holden wrote: > su wrote: >> to find which process dumped core at the promt we give >> >> $ file core.28424 >> >> core.28424: ELF 32-bit LSB core file of 'soffice.bin' (signal 11), >> Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), from 'soffice.bin' >> >> from this command we know 'soffice.bin' process dumped core. Now can i >> do the same using python i.e. finding which process dumped core? if so >> how can i do it? >> > Unfortunately, without some debugging, all you are likely to find is > that /usr/bin/python (or some other interpreter executable) dumped core. > > You'd have to poke around inside the core image to find out which file > was being executed when the interpreter failed.
I think he didn't want to analyze a Python core dump. su: look into /usr/share/file/magic or whatever it's called on your box to see where "file" looks for the executable name. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
