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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/4] coredump: core dump masking support v2
    Hi,

    Robin Holt wrote:
    >>>Can you make this a little more transparent? Having a magic bitmask does
    >>>not seem like the best way to do stuff. Could you maybe make a core_flags
    >>>directory with a seperate file for each flag. It could still map to a
    >>>single field in the mm, but be broken out for the proc filesystem.
    >>
    >>It seems to be one of the good enhancement idea, thanks.:-)
    >>But currently, there is only one flag. So we had better keep this simple
    >>implementation until someone requests to add a new flag.
    >
    > If that is the case, can we rename the file from core_flags to something
    > more descriptive like dump_core_skip_anonymous_mappings. The name
    > is a wild suggestion, the renaming does seem fairly important to me.
    > Remember once you get this in, changing the name will be fairly difficult
    > as admin tools and documentation will adopt the name. These are usually
    > cases where it is better to do it right the first time.

    Okay, I'll adopt your idea in the next version.
    I'm going to provide the proc entry as follows:

    (1) /proc/<pid>/core_flags/flags
    (2) /proc/<pid>/core_flags/omit_anon_shared

    (1) is the same as current core_flags. It is for expert users.
    (2) corresponds to one bit in (1).
    If (2) is set to 1, anonymous shared memory of the process is never
    dumped.

    Thanks,
    --
    Hidehiro Kawai
    Hitachi, Ltd., Systems Development Laboratory


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