su wrote: > to find which process dumped core at the promt we give > > $ file core.28424 > > core.28424: ELF 32-bit LSB core file of 'soffice.bin' (signal 11), > Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), from 'soffice.bin' > > from this command we know 'soffice.bin' process dumped core. Now can i > do the same using python i.e. finding which process dumped core? if so > how can i do it? > Unfortunately, without some debugging, all you are likely to find is that /usr/bin/python (or some other interpreter executable) dumped core.
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