Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:28:45 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [Feature Request?] Inline compression of process core dumps |
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> There are userspace solutions to this problem: allowing the > uncompressed core dump to spin out to disk and then coming in afterwards > and doing the compression, or maybe even a compressed filesystem where > the core dumps land, but I just thought I'd throw this out there since > it seems it would be a useful feature :)
Indeed. So useful that in current kernels you can set the core dump path to be
"|application"
and it will call out to the helper. Take care with the helper as it will get run for setuid apps, roots core dumps etc.
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