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the documentation of the shell's 'ulimit' command in the discussion of RLIMIT_CORE and RLIMIT_FSIZE. Note that a core dump file can be used in a debugger.
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.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
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.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
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.\"
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.TH CORE 5 2008-06-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.TH CORE 5 2008-08-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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core \- core dump file
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.IR "core dump file" ,
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a disk file containing an image of the process's memory at
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the time of termination.
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This image can be used in a debugger (e.g.,
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.BR gdb (1))
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to inspect the state of the program at the time that it terminated.
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A list of the signals which cause a process to dump core can be found in
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.BR signal (7).
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The directory in which the core dump file is to be created does
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not exist.
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.IP *
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The
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.B RLIMIT_CORE
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or
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(core file size) or
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.B RLIMIT_FSIZE
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resource limits for a process are set to zero (see
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.BR getrlimit (2)).
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(file size) resource limits for the process are set to zero; see
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.BR getrlimit (2)
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and the documentation of the shell's
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.I ulimit
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command
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.RI ( limit
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in
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.BR csh (1)).
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.IP *
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The binary being executed by the process does not have read
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permission enabled.
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