[PATCH 0/2] Write a coredump under 'ulimit -c' control

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Wed Jan 10 13:57:02 GMT 2024


The idea here is to make debugging using a coredump work as usual on a unix,
e.g.:

$ ulimit -c unlimited

$ ./segv-program
*** starting 'dumper "C:/cygwin64/work/segv-program.exe" 3712' for pid 546, tid 10640

$ gdb segv-program.exe segv-program.exe.core
[...]

Jon Turney (2):
  Cygwin: Make 'ulimit -c' control writing a coredump
  Cygwin: Disable writing core dumps by default.

 winsup/cygwin/environ.cc              |   1 +
 winsup/cygwin/exceptions.cc           | 100 ++++++++++++++++++--------
 winsup/cygwin/local_includes/winsup.h |   1 +
 winsup/cygwin/mm/cygheap.cc           |   2 +-
 winsup/doc/cygwinenv.xml              |  25 +++++--
 winsup/doc/new-features.xml           |  12 ++++
 winsup/doc/utils.xml                  |  43 +++++++----
 7 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)

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2.42.1



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