by David Anderson
<anderson@redhat.com>
Copyright © 2003 by Red Hat Software, Inc.
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The Red Hat crash analysis utility is loosely based on the SVR4 UNIX crash command, but has been significantly enhanced by completely merging it with the GNU gdb debugger. The marriage of the two effectively combines the kernel-specific nature of the traditional UNIX crash utility with the source code level debugging capabilities of gdb. The utility can be used to investigate:
The crash utility is designed to be independent of Linux version dependencies. When new kernel source code impacts the correct functionality of crash and its command set, the utility will be updated to recognize new kernel code changes while maintaining backwards compatibility with earlier releases.
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