[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Core dumps are often used to diagnose or debug errors in Linux
or UNIX programs. Core dumps can serve as useful debugging aids for
sys admins to find out why Application like Lighttpd, Apache,
PHP-CGI or any other program crashed. Many vendors and open source
project author requests a core file to troubleshoot a program. A
core file is generated when an application program abnormally
terminates due to bug, operating system security protection schema,
or program simply try to write beyond the area of memory it has
allocated, and so on. This article explains how to turn on core
file support and track down bugs in programs.”