Re: gcore and core dumps...

[Marco Gerards]

Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

>> Well, sometimes I just get coredumps with these settings.  Is this
>> possible and am I doing something really stupid here or is this a bug?
>
> Could be neither.  See --help: --suspend => --action=suspend,
> and the default --orphan-action=core-file remains in effect.
> Perhaps when you get a core file, the process was an orphan?

It happens when I start a process from bash.  I tried to reproduce it
so I could show you but my box crashed because of that, see the mail I
just sent to bug-hurd.  I will have another look at it soon.

Thanks,
Marco