Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: utrace vs. ptrace | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:37:50 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 15:34 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Thursday 13 July 2006 15:28, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > the script I use for that is at > > http://www.fenrus.org/bt.sh > > > > it tries to include things like rpm versions of the package it was in > > etc, and suggests/downloads the right debuginfo rpms to improve the > > backtrace. Clearly that's all userspace stuff; but it can run from a > > daemon easily; eg have all core dumps go to a special directory where > > the daemon reaps them and analyzes. > > You can't do that right now because core_pattern doesn't support slashes. > The coredumps will be always all over the fs or not be there at all > if the cwd is write protected.
are you sure? I had this working in the 2.6.9 timeframe, I could set core pattern to /tmp/corefiles/core and such just fine.. (and the core files ended up in the /tmp/corefiles/ directory as well)
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