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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.

-Andi
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