Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:24:32 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: utrace vs. ptrace |
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> utrace enables something like 'transparent live debugging': an app > crashes in your distro, a window pops up, and you can 'hand over' a > debugging session to a developer you trust. Or you can instruct the > system to generate a coredump. Or you can generate a shorter summary > of the crash, sent to a central site.
not to mention that utrace could be used to move most of the ELF coredumping code out of the kernel. (the moment you have access to all crashed threads userspace can construct its own coredump - instead of having the kernel construct a coredump file) Roland's patch does not go as far yet, but it could be a possible target.
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