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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
| commit | 6d8bdc65446a704d0750217efd05532fc641ea7d (patch) | |
| tree | 8ae6d698b3c9801750a8b117b3842fb369872a3a /static/openbsd/man5/core.5 | |
| parent | 2f467bd7ff8f8db0dafa40426166491d7f57f368 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man5/core.5 b/static/openbsd/man5/core.5 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..29841f83 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man5/core.5 @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: core.5,v 1.25 2021/05/01 16:11:10 visa Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: core.5,v 1.4 1994/11/30 19:31:11 jtc Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)core.5 8.3 (Berkeley) 12/11/93 +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: May 1 2021 $ +.Dt CORE 5 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm core +.Nd memory image file format +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In sys/types.h +.In sys/exec_elf.h +.Sh DESCRIPTION +A small number of signals which cause abnormal termination of a process +also cause a record of the process's in-core state to be written +to disk for later examination by one of the available debuggers (see +.Xr sigaction 2 ) . +.Pp +By default, this memory image is written to a file named +.Pa programname.core +in the working directory, provided the terminated process had write +permission in the directory, +and the terminated process either had an effective user ID of zero or +had never changed user or group ID. +See the description of +.Dv KERN_NOSUIDCOREDUMP +in +.Xr sysctl 2 +for other options. +.Pp +The maximum size of a +.Pa programname.core +file is limited by +.Xr setrlimit 2 . +Files which would be larger than the limit are not created. +.Pp +The +.Pa programname.core +file is in the ELF binary file format with an +.Va e_type +of +.Dv ET_CORE . +It has no section header table and a segment header that contains +.Dv PT_LOAD +and +.Dv PT_NOTE +segments that describe the state of the process when terminated. +.Pp +The +.Dv PT_LOAD +segments hold images of the process memory when it was terminated. +Device mappings are excluded, +as are read-only mappings that do not have private mapping changes. +Each segment's +.Va p_vaddr , +.Va p_memsz , +and +.Va p_flags +specify the address, size, and access protection of the memory +segment it describes. +.Pp +The +.Dv PT_NOTE +segment contains notes describing the kernel state and CPU registers +of each thread in the process. +Notes describing the process as a whole have the name +.Dq OpenBSD . +An +.Dv NT_OPENBSD_PROCINFO +note is included containing an +.Vt elfcore_procinfo +structure with information about the kernel state of the process. +An +.Dv NT_OPENBSD_AUXV +note is included containing a copy of the original process environment strings. +On sparc64, an +.Dv NT_OPENBSD_WCOOKIE +note is included containing the process's +.Sq window cookie . +.Pp +Notes describing the individual threads in the process have names +in the format +.Dq OpenBSD@%d +where the suffix is the thread ID. +For each thread, an +.Dv NT_OPENBSD_REGS +note is included containing the state of the regular registers of +the thread and, on architectures other than luna88k, an +.Dv NT_OPENBSD_FPREGS +note is also included containing the state of the floating-point +registers of the thread. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr gdb 1 , +.Xr setrlimit 2 , +.Xr sigaction 2 , +.Xr sysctl 2 +.Sh HISTORY +A +.Nm +file format appeared in +.At v1 . +.Ox 2.0 +started using the ELF format for some architectures. +All architectures used ELF starting in +.Ox 5.4 . +.Sh CAVEATS +Programs which are started with either the set-user-ID or +set-group-ID bits set, +or which change their UID or GID after starting, will normally not +dump core. +This is to prevent sensitive information from inadvertently ending +up on disk. +This behaviour can be changed (for debugging purposes) by changing the +.Li kern.nosuidcoredump +.Xr sysctl 2 +variable to the right settings. |
