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I have a strong memory from the start of my career, when I had a job setting up Solaris systems and there was a whispered rumour that one of the senior admins could read core files. To the rest of us, they were just junk that the system created when a process crashed and that we had to find and delete to save disk space. In my mind I thought she could somehow open the files in an editor and "read" them, like something out of the Matrix. We had no idea that you could load them into a debugger which could parse them into something understandable.



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