Please add information about the "gcore" a.k.a "generate-core-file" GDB command into the "How to get meaningful backtraces in Gentoo" document. This might prove valuable in cases where the user needs to restart or shut it down (e.g. services which need to be up and running) a crashed program which is being debugged. Generating core dumps via GDB is good alternative to system-wide core dump generation settings and allows the user to debug the program at a later time. Command reference: http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_9.html#SEC80
Documents in /proj/ belong to that project -- in this case, QA. Reassigning.
Here's an updated link to the documentation of the "gcore" command: http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Core-File-Generation.html
everything's on the wiki nowadays. the qa team has already listed their preferred method of getting core dumps, but you're welcome to edit the backtraces wiki page to add the gcore command: [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces [2] https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/gcore-man.html
