Creating core dumps on Cygwin

Question

I need to enable basic dumps in cygwin. I used ulimit -c unlimited , but when the program I want to debug is disconnected, there is still no coredump in the directory. This is really the right way to enable core dumps, and where can I find the dump then?

Answer 1

That should work. Which shell are you using?

Do not forget that the dump is not called the "core" ... rather, on a Windows machine with Cygwin, something like "mybadprog.exe.stackdump" will most likely be called