A memory image of an abnormally terminated process (see core(4)). This file contains sufficient information to determine what the process was doing at the time of its termination. It can be examined using the debugger to determine why the program failed.

a complete snapshot of the memory at the time a program crashes

a dump of the mud's memory area at the exact moment the game crashed, and GDB allows you to examine it

In the S CHEME TATION context, a UNIX file system file that contains the internal state of a domain that has been previously shut down.

a disk copy of the contents of the process address space at the time the process received the signal, along with additional information about the state of the process

a file produced by the operating system to record the process state at the time the process dies abnormally