What does a basic C code dump mean?

Question

What does the core dump extension mean and how to read the kernel dump file? As in the case when I open the file in text editors, I get garbage values.

Note. Its extension is something like.2369

Answer 1

An extension is most often an identifier for a process that crashed. You need to examine the file using the debug tool.

Answer 2

You can use gdb to read the core dump. The extension is the process identifier.

Here is a link to the stream explaining how to do this.

And here is the gdb tutorial .

Answer 3

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The value at the end of the file name must be system dependent. I usually use a debugger like GDB, along with my program to examine such files.