Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!CSD4.CSD.UWM.EDU!doug From: doug@CSD4.CSD.UWM.EDU (Doug Tiarks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.tahoe Subject: undumping a core image Message-ID: <8908161740.AA05361@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> Date: 16 Aug 89 17:40:10 GMT References:Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 30 wills ms 01309 writes: > "undump" exists which will do such a thing from a core file. My > questions are these: > > Is there an FTP site where I can find such an animal? > > Can it reliably resume a process from any core file? > > How dependent is it on platform type? I'm using a tahoe running Undump is distributed with the Unix version of TeX for making "preloaded" versions of the tex/metafont programs. I'm not sure of the exact details of how it works, but it takes a core file and the original executable and creates a runable program. I don't think it can resume execution at the point that the program dumped core. I believe it just initializes the variables to the values in the core file. If you want to take a look at it you can find it in labrea.stanford.edu:pub/undump.tar.Z Doug Tiarks UW-Milwaukee Computing Services Div. Internet: doug@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (was csd4.milw.wisc.edu) UUCP: {uwvax, uwmacc}!uwmcsd1!doug