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 - <pre class="format">gcore [-a] [-o <var>prefix</var>] <var>pid1</var> [<var>pid2</var>...<var>pidN</var>]
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 - <p>Generate core dumps of one or more running programs with process IDs
 - <var>pid1</var>, <var>pid2</var>, etc.  A core file produced by <code>gcore</code>
 - is equivalent to one produced by the kernel when the process crashes
 - (and when <kbd>ulimit -c</kbd> was used to set up an appropriate core dump
 - limit).  However, unlike after a crash, after <code>gcore</code> finishes
 - its job the program remains running without any change.
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 - <dt><code>-a</code></dt>
 - <dd><p>Dump all memory mappings.  The actual effect of this option depends on
 - the Operating System.  On <small>GNU</small>/Linux, it will disable
 - <code>use-coredump-filter</code> (see <a href="Core-File-Generation.html#set-use_002dcoredump_002dfilter">set use-coredump-filter</a>) and
 - enable <code>dump-excluded-mappings</code> (see <a href="Core-File-Generation.html#set-dump_002dexcluded_002dmappings">set dump-excluded-mappings</a>).
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 - <dt><code>-o <var>prefix</var></code></dt>
 - <dd><p>The optional argument <var>prefix</var> specifies the prefix to be used
 - when composing the file names of the core dumps.  The file name is
 - composed as <samp><var>prefix</var>.<var>pid</var></samp>, where <var>pid</var> is the
 - process ID of the running program being analyzed by <code>gcore</code>.
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