Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:37:08 -0500 (EST) | From | Kenneth Albanowski <> | Subject | Re: core files |
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On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Pavel Machek wrote:
> I do not know how hard writing of userland coredumper is, mj says it > is possible and not that hard. I do not think this is important... I > may play with it on one cloudy day.
I'd prefer to see it remain in-kernel, mainly because it may need to be privy to knowledge that is most easily obtained in-kernel (if the process load address is variable, for example), and because it can safely be considered an atomic and robust process if it is in the kernel. (Yes, I know, putting it in the kernel doesn't make it bug free. But we can keep the existing code that _does_ seem to be bug free.)
The private-knowledge aspect isn't crucial: to set up a debugger, the same information will need to be available through ptrace. But mostly I'd just prefer to leave something alone if it isn't broken.
-- Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)
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