[ale] server crash

Stuffed Crust pizza at shaftnet.org
Mon Nov 17 10:06:40 EST 2003


On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:58:26AM -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Speaking only academically, I don't see how it could!
> 
> On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 09:32, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > When a linux box drops core into /proc/kcore, will that file survive a
> > reboot? I was _looking_ at /proc when the coredump happened!

/proc/kcore is a "live" image of the kernel, in the form of a coredump 
file.  It's used in conjuction with gdb to debug a running system.

The file isn't preserved across reboots, it's simply always there. :)

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