[SWLUG] how hard can it be... to get a core dump

[Dave Cridland]

On Thu Sep 25 13:18:54 2008, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> But programA runs programB and the crash only occurs in programB  
> when it
> is run from programA (with a particular data set); it runs fine on  
> its
> own or with other data. Inside gdb the crash occurs and a return  
> value
> of 01 is noted; but the backtrace gives me nothing, presumably  
> because
> gdb is debugging programA rather than the programB that crashed  
> "inside"
> it.

gdb ./programB `pgrep programB`

While programB is running, of course.

How does programA start?

Dave.
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