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 current directory.

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

COPYING

       Copyright © 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
       permission notice identical to this one.

       Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the
       above conditions  for  modified  versions,  except  that  this  permission  notice  may  be  included  in
       translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the original English.

SEE ALSO

       gdb(1), core(5)

gdb 6.8                                             May 2007                                            gcore(1)