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* Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> [070411 15:43] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> writes:
> > Ed Maste <ed.maste@gmail.com> [070411 13:46] wrote:
> > > Currently, without the -s option the core produced by gcore is
> > > inconsistent, and it's that behaviour that would be eliminated with my
> > > change.  Do you actually have a use for inconsistent core files?
> > Not so much as a need for an inconsistent core so much as a need
> > for a core without halting the program for the time it takes to
> > dump core.
> 
> What Ed is trying to tell you is that the result will be a useless
> core file.

And what I'm trying to say is that he's wrong.

One can still examine such a corefile to find valuable data.

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- Alfred Perlstein