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core-dumps
- Mar 7, 2025 Core Dumps: Notes, Mappings, and Unwinding a Dead Process A core file is an ELF object whose segments are memory rather than code. How registers, mappings, and file identities are recorded so a backtrace can be rebuilt later. developer tools
- Jan 24, 2024 What an ELF Core File Preserves of a Process How the kernel encodes a dead process as an ELF object: loadable segments for memory, note records for registers and mappings, and what the dump deliberately leaves out. systems programming