From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@ecsc.co.uk>
To: sathish jayapalan <sathish_jayapalan@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to crash a system and take a dump?
Date: 04 Feb 2002 12:31:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1012825915.30112.4.camel@lemsip> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020204112621.31480.qmail@web14805.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020204112621.31480.qmail@web14805.mail.yahoo.com>
On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 11:26, sathish jayapalan wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a doubt. I know that linux kernel doesn't crash
> so easily. Is there any way to panic the system? Can I
> go to the source area and insert/modify a variable in
> kernel code so that the kernel references a null
> pointer and crashes while running the kernel compiled
> with this variable. My aim is to learn crash dump
> analysis with 'Lcrash tool". Please help me out with
> this.
Im not sure about the Lcrash tool, but core dumps can be obtained from
the kernel at any time simply by reading /proc/kcore.
Hope that helps.
--
// Gianni Tedesco <gianni@ecsc.co.uk>
80% of all email is a figment of procmails imagination.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-04 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-04 11:26 How to crash a system and take a dump? sathish jayapalan
2002-02-04 12:31 ` Gianni Tedesco [this message]
2002-02-04 13:32 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
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2002-02-04 11:40 Alexander Sandler
2002-02-05 2:32 ` Philippe Troin
2002-02-05 18:50 Alexander Sandler
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