[COFF] Conditions, AKA exceptions.

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Larry,

>         cmd = aprintf("gdb -batch -ex backtrace '%s/bk' %u 1>&%d 2>&%d",
>             bin, getpid(), fileno(f), fileno(f));
>
>         system(cmd);

I also came up with this, probably on an SGI Iris Indigo, and got it
added to the Unix Programming FAQ.  :-)

    6.5 How can I generate a stack dump from within a running program?
    http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/programmer/faq/

It works surprisingly often, i.e. the process is healthy enough to run
system(3).

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.