How generates core file without stop process?

[mzou]

How generates core file without stop process in HP-UX 11.11?

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

Not sure if it is possible without killing the process.

# kill -6 PID
will produce a core file, but will also kil, the process.

Other suggestion is to use truss/tusc.

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/tusc-7.8/

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[RAC_1]

Not possible I think. What exactly you are trying to do? If you are looking at getting the run image of the processes, you can do that.

[Darrel Louis]

Hi,

Don't think it's possible.
Check the following thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1005951

Read:
http://www.ma.utexas.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?kill+1

signum signame Name Description
0 SIGNULL Null Check access to pid
1 SIGHUP Hangup Terminate; can be trapped
2 SIGINT Interrupt Terminate; can be trapped
3 SIGQUIT Quit Terminate with core dump; can be trapped
9 SIGKILL Kill Forced termination; cannot be trapped
15 SIGTERM Terminate Terminate; can be trapped
24 SIGSTOP Stop Pause the process; cannot be trapped
25 SIGTSTP Terminal stop Pause the process; can be trapped
26 SIGCONT Continue Run a stopped process

Darrel

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Do a search for a utility called "gcore"; possibly on Google with +gcore +"HP-UX" as search targets. I figure you can search as easily as I now that you know "gcore". It's also possible to launch a process under the gdb debugger and dump a core.

[mzou]

Thank you, guys.

1. HP's gdb (/opt/langtools/bin/gdb) from version 3.2 onwards has a command 'dumpcore' to achieve this.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1005951

2. gcore

3. use comand "thread apply all bt"; this method just print call stack, sometimes it's enough

[mzou]

Thank you, guys.

1. HP's gdb (/opt/langtools/bin/gdb) from version 3.2 onwards has a command 'dumpcore' to achieve this.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1005951

2. gcore

3. use gdb comand "thread apply all bt" ; this method just print call stack, sometimes it's enough