Hi,


Gennady writes:
 > Hi, guys
 > 
 > The great thing about this list is that you can expect an answer to any 
 > reasonable technical question here. You are the best, guys.
 > 
 > Now the question ;-). Does anybody know how to generate a core file from 
 > within a process without terminating it on Linux or Solaris? I know that 
 > at any point I can call abort() and have the core, or send itself a 
 > signal that terminates a process with generating a core file. But it is 
 > not what I need, unfortunately.

Here's an idea, could you fork and then abort() the new
process immediately? 

        Paul