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35 .Nd common coredump write routine
39 .Fn coredump_write "void *iocookie" "enum uio_seg segflg" \
40 "const void *data" "size_t len"
43 is used by both machine-dependent and machine-independent components
44 to write information to a coredump.
46 is an opaque pointer that was supplied to the caller of
51 is located, system space or user space.
53 points to the information to be written to the coredump.
55 is the amount of data to be written.
58 returns 0 on success and an appropriate error code on failure.
60 This section describes places within the
62 source tree where actual code implementing or using
65 All pathnames are relative to
68 Process core dumps are initiated within the file
69 .Pa sys/kern/kern_sig.c .
70 Process core dumps for ELF
72 binaries are performed within the files
73 .Pa sys/kern/core_elf32.c
75 .Pa sys/kern/core_elf64.c .
76 Process core dumps for other
78 binaries are performed within the file
79 .Pa sys/kern/core_netbsd.c .