From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: gdb postmortem debugging... Date: 15 May 1992 22:40:54 GMT
In article <1992May14.165106.8531@m.cs.uiuc.edu> jyelon@aescylus.cs.uiuc.edu (Josh Yelon) writes:
>I have been using gdb for a little while, and it's working fine,
>except that I can't do postmortem debugging: once the program
>gets a SIGSEGV, it exits, and there is nothing left for gdb to
>debug.
This is not a bug, rather a missing feature. No one has added
core dumps to the kernel.
>Is this a known bug? Or is my understanding of how gdb
>works flawed?
Neither.