Make the page more helpful to non-programmers by referencing

the documentation of the shell's 'ulimit' command in the
discussion of RLIMIT_CORE and RLIMIT_FSIZE.
Note that a core dump file can be used in a debugger.

diff --git a/man5/core.5 b/man5/core.5
index d56a06f9e8d52249d6f966273efb8d208c49fa56..55ed64cdb822ae1d687163263694763083c60a7b 100644 (file)
--- a/man5/core.5
+++ b/man5/core.5
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
 .\"
-.TH CORE 5 2008-06-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH CORE 5 2008-08-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 core \- core dump file
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ and produce a
 .IR "core dump file" ,
 a disk file containing an image of the process's memory at
 the time of termination.
+This image can be used in a debugger (e.g.,
+.BR gdb (1))
+to inspect the state of the program at the time that it terminated.
 A list of the signals which cause a process to dump core can be found in
 .BR signal (7).
 
@@ -65,11 +68,18 @@ or the user has reached their quota for the file system.
 The directory in which the core dump file is to be created does
 not exist.
 .IP *
+The
 .B RLIMIT_CORE
-or
+(core file size) or
 .B RLIMIT_FSIZE
-resource limits for a process are set to zero (see
-.BR getrlimit (2)).
+(file size) resource limits for the process are set to zero; see
+.BR getrlimit (2)
+and the documentation of the shell's
+.I ulimit
+command
+.RI ( limit
+in
+.BR csh (1)).
 .IP *
 The binary being executed by the process does not have read
 permission enabled.