core dump
nounEtymology From dumping the contents of the (now obsolete) core memory out to be read.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The recorded state of the memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has terminated abnormally.
- Certain signals cause a process to create a core dump and terminate (Table 20-1, page 396). A core dump is a file containing a memory image of the process at the time it terminated. (The term core derives from an old memory technology.)2010, Michael Kerrisk, The Linux Programming Interface, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 448:
- Synonyms
- crash dump, memory dump
- Related terms
- core memory, info-dump