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41 .Nd memory image file format
45 A small number of signals which cause abnormal termination of a process
46 also cause a record of the process's in-core state to be written
47 to disk for later examination by one of the available debuggers.
50 This memory image is written to a file named by default
52 in the working directory;
53 provided the terminated process had write permission in the directory,
54 and provided the abnormality did not cause
56 (In this event, the decision to save the core file is arbitrary, see
59 The maximum size of a core file is limited by
61 Files which would be larger than the limit are not created.
63 The name of the file is controlled via the
67 The contents of this variable describes a filename to store
69 This filename can be absolute, or relative (which
70 will resolve to the current working directory of the program
74 in this filename template will be replaced by the process name,
76 by the processes PID, and
81 yielding the traditional
85 By default, a process that changes user or group credentials whether
86 real or effective will not create a corefile.
88 changed to generate a core dump by setting the
91 .Va kern.sugid_coredump
94 The core file consists of the
96 area, whose size (in pages) is
106 structure as given in
108 The remainder of the core
109 file consists of the data pages followed by
110 the stack pages of the process image.
111 The amount of data space image in the core
112 file is given (in pages) by the
118 The amount of stack image in the core file is given (in pages) by the
124 The size of a ``page'' is given by the constant
129 In order to store all core images in per-user private areas under
135 .Dl sysctl kern.corefile="/var/coredumps/\&%U/\&%N.core"
145 file format appeared in