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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: core files under SV
Message-ID: <11613@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 15 Nov 89 23:52:40 GMT
References: <MRD.89Nov15011304@image.clarkson.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <MRD.89Nov15011304@image.clarkson.edu> mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) writes:
>There has got to be a little function I can call that will generate a
>core file of my process but I sure can't find it in sections 2 or 3.
>Anybody know what it is?
>NOTE I want to generate a core file but NOT exit.  Yup I just want to
>go along on my merry way.

I could say all sorts of disparaging things about people who think
UNIX would have a single function that performs a particular action
not of general utilit, but I won't :-)

	if ( fork() == 0 )
		abort();