Hi,

* Daniel Baulig wrote (2006-05-24 01:29):
>Thorsten Haude wrote:
>>* Daniel Baulig wrote (2006-05-23 20:10):
>>>Thorsten Haude wrote:
>>It's a file (aptly called 'core', sometimes 'core.$PID') created by
>>the OS if a process crashes. The file contains information about the
>>process the moment it crashed and can help in debugging. This is also
>>called 'throwing a core' or 'core dump'.
>>
>>The file is not always created for various reasons. If it is not,
>>please send the result of 'ulimit -a'.
>
>I suppose the file should be created in the user's home directory, which 
> it is not.

No, sorry, it's created in the process' working directory.


>core file size          (blocks, -c) 0

This means that no cores are created. If you want to change this, just
enter 'ulimit -c 200000' (or another large number) before you start
the process which would crash.


>However, I just figured, that the term "crash" might not be 100% 
>correct. Actually nedit does not crash totally, but sort of hang. I 
>cannot press any control elements, and it will not redraw any elements 
>anymore. However, I have to kill it to get rid of it completely.

Most signals dump core, so you might try to raise the core limit and
try again.


Thorsten
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