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To: Mark Skilbeck <markskilbeck@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] No core file being created
From: scott@macvicar.net (Scott MacVicar)

On 10 Nov 2009, at 13:55, Mark Skilbeck wrote:

> I'm trying to debug a segfault that's occuring in an extension I'm  
> developing (phpgksu - PHP wrapper for libgksu2). On the PHP site it  
> says that if I have PHP configured with --enable-debug (which I do)  
> then whenever PHP crashes a core file should be created in the same  
> directory the file is executing. However, I do not see one.
>
> I've even run the command as sudo ($ sudo php /file.php) to make  
> sure PHP has the permissions to write the file.
>
> Any ideas?
>

ulimit -c unlimited

So you can enable core files, the debug mode in PHP just stops  
optimizations and stripping of symbols producing a more useful core  
file.

Scott