From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2e9c578a9057fe6b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-21 09:54:45 PST Message-ID: <3E7B5103.1000204@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Core Files References: <25919840.0303210752.9ca5a98@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:50:59 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1048269061 198.96.47.195 (Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:51:01 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:51:01 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35608 Date: 2003-03-21T12:50:59-05:00 List-Id: Bill Schreckenstein wrote: > I am currently trying to debug an image on a Red Hat 6.2 box that > seems to hang several hours into our longevity stress test. My > question is, is there a way to make an ada application give you a core > file? I am using GNAT 3.14a1 and we have the 2.4.19 kernel for RH > 6.2. We have tried using the kill -11 and that doesn't give us a core > file and sometimes that doesn't even kill the application. Any help > you guys could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in > advance! > > -Bill Normally "kill -SIGQUIT" (or -3) is sufficient to generate a core file. However, conditions such as having a current directory without permissions to create a core file will defeat this. Warren. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg