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From: weimer@garden.ssd.kodak.com (Gary Weimer (253-7796))
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Subject: Re: Restarting a process from a core file
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Date: 1 May 91 19:14:51 GMT
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In article <1991May1.170008.12258@neocad.com>, carl@neocad.com (Carl
Stern) writes:
|> 
|>      Ideally what I'd like to do is to be able to save the state of a
|> process at a given point in time and then restart it for debugging purposes.
|> I thought I could send it a signal to dump core, (I've tried QUIT,
ABRT, TRAP),
|> and then use dbx to debug the core file.  I can't continue execution though,
|> which is what I want to be able to do.  I believe this is because there is
|> no active process for dbx to debug.  So is there a way, or an
existing program,
|> that can take a core file and use it to initialize a process and run it?
|> i.e. reload the core file and restart it as a process.
|> If not, why not?

Have you tried sending SEGV then using 'cont' in dbx (I haven't)?

weimer@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )