gcore(1)                           GNU Tools                          gcore(1)



NAME
       gcore - Generate a core file for a running process

SYNOPSIS
       gcore [-o filename] pid

DESCRIPTION
       gcore  generates  a  core file for the process specified by its process
       ID, pid. By default, the core file is written to core.pid, in the  cur-
       rent directory.

       -o filename
              write core file to filename instead of core.pid

COPYING
       Copyright (C) 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

       Permission  is  granted  to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
       manual provided the copyright notice and  this  permission  notice  are
       preserved on all copies.

       Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of  this
       manual under the conditions for verbatim  copying,  provided  that  the
       entire  resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a per-
       mission notice identical to this one.

       Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this  man-
       ual into another language, under the above conditions for modified ver-
       sions, except that this permission notice may be included  in  transla-
       tions approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the origi-
       nal English.

SEE ALSO
       gdb(1), core(5)



gdb 6.8                            May 2007                           gcore(1)
