On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 07:20:57PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 01:13:37PM -0400, Douglas McNaught wrote:
> > "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> >
> > > It would also be useful to be able to force the backend to
> > > dump core so you can see if it's actually working (granted, I know you
> > > can end up hitting the ulimit depending on how much memory is being
> > > consumed). Maybe there is a way to do this already and I just don't know
> > > it...
> >
> > SIGABRT?
>
> Still doesn't do anything if core dumps are disabled. The point is to
> enable the user to enable core dumps from the frontend, rather than
> having to fiddle the backend environment directly...
Actually, SIGABRT is what I was looking for... I wanted a way to force a
backend to dump core so I could see if a corefile would actually be
generated.
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