NAME
coredump_write —
common coredump write
routine
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/signalvar.h>
int
coredump_write(void
*iocookie, enum uio_seg
segflg, const void
*data, size_t
len);
DESCRIPTION
coredump_write()
is used by both machine-dependent and machine-independent components to write
information to a coredump. iocookie is an opaque pointer
that was supplied to the caller of coredump_write().
segflg indicates where the data is
located, system space or user space. data points to the
information to be written to the coredump. len is the
amount of data to be written.
coredump_write()
returns 0 on success and an appropriate error code on failure.
CODE REFERENCES
Process core dumps are initiated within the file sys/kern/kern_sig.c. Process core dumps for ELF NetBSD binaries are performed within the files sys/kern/core_elf32.c or sys/kern/core_elf64.c. Process core dumps for other NetBSD binaries are performed within the file sys/kern/core_netbsd.c.