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148 lines
4.7 KiB
Groff
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.\" @(#)core.5 8.3 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd November 22, 2012
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.Dt CORE 5
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm core
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.Nd memory image file format
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In sys/param.h
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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A small number of signals which cause abnormal termination of a process
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also cause a record of the process's in-core state to be written
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to disk for later examination by one of the available debuggers.
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(See
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.Xr sigaction 2 . )
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This memory image is written to a file named by default
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.Nm programname.core
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in the working directory;
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provided the terminated process had write permission in the directory,
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and provided the abnormality did not cause
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a system crash.
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(In this event, the decision to save the core file is arbitrary, see
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.Xr savecore 8 . )
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.Pp
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The maximum size of a core file is limited by
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.Xr setrlimit 2 .
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Files which would be larger than the limit are not created.
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.Pp
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The name of the file is controlled via the
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.Xr sysctl 8
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variable
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.Va kern.corefile .
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The contents of this variable describes a filename to store
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the core image to.
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This filename can be absolute, or relative (which
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will resolve to the current working directory of the program
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generating it).
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.Pp
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The following format specifiers may be used in the
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.Va kern.corefile
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sysctl to insert additional information into the resulting core file
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name:
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.Bl -tag -width "1234567890" -compact -offset "12345"
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.It Em \&%H
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Machine hostname.
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.It Em \&%I
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An index starting at zero until the sysctl
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.Em debug.ncores
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is reached.
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This can be useful for limiting the number of corefiles
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generated by a particular process.
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.It Em \&%N
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process name.
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.It Em \&%P
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processes PID.
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.It Em \&%U
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process UID.
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.El
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.Pp
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The name defaults to
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.Em \&%N.core ,
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yielding the traditional
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.Fx
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behaviour.
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.Pp
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By default, a process that changes user or group credentials whether
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real or effective will not create a corefile.
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This behaviour can be
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changed to generate a core dump by setting the
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.Xr sysctl 8
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variable
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.Va kern.sugid_coredump
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to 1.
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.Pp
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Corefiles can be compressed by the kernel if the following items
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are included in the kernel configuration file:
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.Bl -tag -width "1234567890" -compact -offset "12345"
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.It options
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COMPRESS_USER_CORES
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.It devices
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gzio
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.El
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.Pp
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When COMPRESS_USER_CORES is included the following sysctls can control
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if core files will be compressed:
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.Bl -tag -width "kern.compress_user_cores_gzlevel" -compact -offset "12345"
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.It Em kern.compress_user_cores_gzlevel
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Gzip compression level.
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Defaults to -1.
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.It Em kern.compress_user_cores
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Actually compress user cores.
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Core files will have the suffix
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.Em .gz
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appended to them.
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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In order to store all core images in per-user private areas under
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.Pa /var/coredumps ,
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the following
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.Xr sysctl 8
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command can be used:
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.Pp
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.Dl sysctl kern.corefile=/var/coredumps/\&%U/\&%N.core
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr gdb 1 ,
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.Xr kgdb 1 ,
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.Xr setrlimit 2 ,
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.Xr sigaction 2 ,
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.Xr sysctl 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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A
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.Nm
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file format appeared in
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.At v6 .
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