Where do core dumps go in Cygwin?

Takashi Yano takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp
Fri Sep 1 13:55:39 GMT 2023


On Fri, 1 Sep 2023 15:50:32 +0200
Joshuah Hurst wrote:
> Where do core dumps in Cygwin go? ulimit -c is set to unlimited in
> bash, but on SEGV no core dump is created in cwd.
> 
> I need a stack trace for randomly occurring SIGSEGV of an application,
> but cannot just instrument every invocation.

Read:
https://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/dumper.html

However, unfortunately, cygwin 3.4.8 is missing dumper.exe.
Please use latest cygwin 3.5.0 (Test) or cygwin 3.4.7 so far.

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Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>


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