Where do core dumps go in Cygwin?

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Sat Sep 2 15:28:51 GMT 2023


On 01/09/2023 21:52, Joshuah Hurst via Cygwin wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 3:55 PM Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp> wrote:
>>
>> 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.

"accidentally missing"

> Why? Will this be fixed for cygwin 3.4.8-2?

This was due to an error in our build scripts (which was not noticed 
until after the fact)

It will be present in 3.4.9



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