Re: core file not generated when kernel is crashed with Sysrq key

From: Erik Mouw
Date: Thu Jul 28 2005 - 07:03:57 EST


On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:52:42AM -0700, dipankar das wrote:
> core file is not generated when kernel is crashed with
> Sysrq key ?

That's right.

> What could be the reason for this ?

Because it wasn't designed to do so. Core files are for crashing
userland programs. There are projects for kernel crash dumps, search
the archives.


Erik

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