On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:16:59 +0100 David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Userland core dumper is useful because it is relatively easy to be > > > customized, but its reliability highly depends on the application > > > programs. > > > > Fix userland core dumper to be reliable, then. > > I don't think it's that easy. The userland core dumper, as I understand it, > has to work *within* an application program (it's a library), thus the > application program my scotch the core dumper in a couple of ways: That's no longer necessarily true with the recently-added dump-to-an-application feature: core_pattern: ... . If the first character of the pattern is a '|', the kernel will treat the rest of the pattern as a command to run. The core dump will be written to the standard input of that program instead of to a file. That's new in 2.6.20 (maybe .19?) so people probably don't know about it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
