Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:14:10 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -tip 2/3] Add coredump tracepoint |
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* Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Do you know about exact usecases where these tracepoints would be > > utilized? Would be interesting (and relevant) to list them. > > Masami's colleagues do have something in particular in mind, but I'm > not sure whether they intend to use systemtap as part of the > implementation of that or not.
Some sort of flexible core dump server perhaps, driven by user-space logic? (vastly more flexible than coredump-filter or coredump ulimits are today)
Ingo
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