core man page on HP-UX

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core(4)								       core(4)

NAME
       core - format of core image file

DESCRIPTION
       The  HP-UX system writes out a file containing a core image of a termi‐
       nated process when certain signals are received (see signal(5) for  the
       list  of reasons).  The most common causes are memory violations, ille‐
       gal instructions, floating point exceptions, bus errors, and  user-gen‐
       erated  quit  signals.  The core image file is called and is written in
       the process's working directory	(provided  it  is  allowed  by	normal
       access  controls).   A process with an effective user ID different from
       its real user ID does not produce a core image.

       The file contains sufficient information to determine what the  process
       was  doing  at the time of its termination.  Core file contents consist
       of objects that represent different segments of a process.  Each object
       is  preceded by a data structure, and each data structure describes the
       corresponding object following it.  The structure  is  defined  in  and
       includes the following members:

       The  space  and	addr members specify the virtual memory address in the
       process where the described object began.  The len member is the length
       of the object in bytes.

       The following possible values for type are defined in

	      Process  data  as it existed at the time the core image was cre‐
	      ated.
				This includes initialized data,	 uninitialized
				data,  and the heap at the time the core image
				is generated.

	      A compiler-dependent data structure  containing  the  exec  data
	      structure,
				the  magic  number of the executable file, and
				the command (see the declaration of the struc‐
				ture in

	      The version number of the core format produced.
				This  number  changes  with each HP-UX release
				where the  core	 format	 itself	 has  changed.
				However,  it  does not necessarily change with
				every HP-UX release.  can thus be easily  used
				by  core-reading  tools	 to  determine whether
				they are compatible with a given  core	image.
				This  type  is expressed by a four-byte binary
				integer.

	      The null-terminated version string associated with the kernel
				at the time the core image was generated.

	      An architecture-dependent data structure
				containing  per-process	 information  such  as
				hardware  register contents.  See the declara‐
				tion of the structure in

	      Process stack contents at the time the core image was created.

       Objects dumped in a image file  are  not	 arranged  in  any  particular
       order.	Use information to determine the type of the object that imme‐
       diately follows it.

SEE ALSO
       adb(1), coreadm(1M),  coreadm(2),  setuid(2),  crt0(3),	end(3C),  sig‐
       nal(5).

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