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In Unix/linux, there are times when programs are not thoroughly debugged, making it possible for them to do something like segment errors at the time of execution, which can lead to core dumps (cores dumps). As explained in the book "Classis Shell Scripting", "Main Memory" (main memory) is often called the core in a UNIX system because the core is used before the semiconductor is used as a memory material. The core image is the memory content that the process is executing. When a process fails or receives a ' signal ' (signal) and terminates execution, the system writes the core image to a file for debugging purposes, which is known as the core dump (dumps). ”
In Unix/linux, there are times when programs are not thoroughly debugged, making it possible for them to do something like segment errors at the time of execution, which can lead to core dumps (cores dumps). As explained in the book "Classis Shell Scripting", "Main Memory" (main memory) is often called the core in a UNIX system because the core is used before the semiconductor is used as a memory material. The core image is the memory content that the process is executing. When a process fails or receives a ' signal ' (signal) and terminates execution, the system writes the core image to a file for debugging purposes, which is known as the core dump (dumps). ”