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40 .Nd memory image file format
44 A small number of signals which cause abnormal termination of a process
45 also cause a record of the process's in-core state to be written
46 to disk for later examination by one of the available debuggers.
49 This memory image is written to a file named by default
51 in the working directory;
52 provided the terminated process had write permission in the directory,
53 and provided the abnormality did not cause
55 (In this event, the decision to save the core file is arbitrary, see
58 The maximum size of a core file is limited by
60 Files which would be larger than the limit are not created.
62 The name of the file is controlled via the
66 The contents of this variable describes a filename to store
68 This filename can be absolute, or relative (which
69 will resolve to the current working directory of the program
73 in this filename template will be replaced by the process name,
75 by the processes PID, and
80 yielding the traditional
84 By default, a process that changes user or group credentials whether
85 real or effective will not create a corefile.
87 changed to generate a core dump by setting the
90 .Va kern.sugid_coredump
93 In order to store all core images in per-user private areas under
99 .Dl sysctl kern.corefile="/var/coredumps/\&%U/\&%N.core"
109 file format appeared in