Re: Linux child process does not core dump

From: Maxin B John
Date: Thu Jul 28 2011 - 09:44:10 EST


Hi Srinivas,

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Srinivas Nayak
<sinu_nayak2001@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In my program, I fork() to get a child process.
> Because of some problem, child process terminates by a segmentation fault.
> Parent process is still running.
>
> I have compiled my code with -g option.
> I have done: ulimit -c unlimited.
>
> I am not getting core dump of the child process.
>
> How can I get the core dump of child process?

You can call setrlimit(2) from the child process to get core dump.

Best Regard,
Maxin B. John
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