/lib/udev/devices/core

[savita at iwavesystems.com]

who will cal this file in ubuntu 9.04
/etc/event.d/rcS. which inturn executes /etc/init.d/rcS.

where i can check console device configured properly.

thanks in advance,
Savita
> On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 18:11 +0530, savita at iwavesystems.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i want to know who calls this following binary file(core) in ubuntu
>> 9.04.
>>
>> lib/udev/devices/core
>>
>> what this file do?
>>
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> froller at metis:~$ locate lib/udev/devices/core
> /lib/udev/devices/core
> froller at metis:~$ whatis core
> core (5)             - core dump file
>
> man core
>
> NAME
>        core - core dump file
>
> DESCRIPTION
>        The  default  action of certain signals is to cause a process to
> terminate and produce a core dump file, a disk file containing an  image
> of the  process’s  memory  at  the time of termination.  This image can
> be used in a debugger (e.g., gdb(1)) to inspect the state of  the
> program at  the  time  that it terminated.  A list of the signals which
> cause a process to dump core can be found in signal(7).
> ...
>
> froller at metis:/lib/udev/devices$ ls -l
> total 12
> crw------- 1 root root   5, 1 2009-05-26 11:19 console
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     11 2009-05-26 11:19 core -> /proc/kcore
>
> note that /lib/udev/devices/core links back to /proc/kcore and as I am
> to understand it this happens when one of your systems or services
> experiences a crash.  Hope this helps and if anyone can expand on this
> please do.
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