How do I find out if a core dump was explicitly generated or if it was a result of a program crash?
Issue
- A core dump was found on the system. How do I know if the program crashed or was the core dump manually generated by using the
gcoreorgdbcommands?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- gdb
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