Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Questions about ptrace on a dying process | Date | Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:12:02 -0800 |
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Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> writes:
> ptrace maintainers (and interested parties)... > > I'm working on a crash handler for Linux, which uses ptrace to retrieve information > about a process during it's coredump. Specifically, from within a core handler > program (started within do_coredump() as a user_mode_helper), I would like to make > ptrace calls against the dying process.
The standard approach is to define a core pipe handler and parse the elf memory dump.
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
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