Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: utrace vs. ptrace | Date | Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:21:52 +0200 |
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> > I'm not sure that's particularly useful (I think I would prefer to > > keep it in kernel), [...] > > why would we want to keep this in the kernel? Coredumping in the kernel > is fragile, and it's nowhere near performance-critical to really live > within the kernel.
Mostly because I fear it would become another udev like disaster, requiring user space updates regularly, and core dumps are a fairly critical debugging feature that I wouldn't like to become unreliable.
That said extended core dumping (e.g. automatic processing of the output) in user space makes sense. I had a prototype for that once that uploaded a simple crash report to a web page.
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