Hello, What's the status of the note entry types in core dumps in NetBSD?
They are extra notes saved during the memory dumping in additional section. mostly dumping content of structures. Just to list their types: #define NT_PRSTATUS 1 /* prstatus_t <sys/old_procfs.h> */ #define NT_PRFPREG 2 /* prfpregset_t <sys/old_procfs.h> */ #define NT_PRPSINFO 3 /* prpsinfo_t <sys/old_procfs.h> */ #define NT_PRXREG 4 /* prxregset_t <sys/procfs.h> */ #define NT_PLATFORM 5 /* string from sysinfo(SI_PLATFORM) */ #define NT_AUXV 6 /* auxv_t array <sys/auxv.h> */ #define NT_GWINDOWS 7 /* gwindows_t SPARC only */ #define NT_ASRS 8 /* asrset_t SPARC V9 only */ #define NT_LDT 9 /* ssd array <sys/sysi86.h> IA32 only */ #define NT_PSTATUS 10 /* pstatus_t <sys/procfs.h> */ #define NT_PSINFO 13 /* psinfo_t <sys/procfs.h> */ #define NT_PRCRED 14 /* prcred_t <sys/procfs.h> */ #define NT_UTSNAME 15 /* struct utsname <sys/utsname.h> */ #define NT_LWPSTATUS 16 /* lwpstatus_t <sys/procfs.h> */ #define NT_LWPSINFO 17 /* lwpsinfo_t <sys/procfs.h> */ #define NT_PRPRIV 18 /* prpriv_t <sys/procfs.h> */ #define NT_PRPRIVINFO 19 /* priv_impl_info_t <sys/priv.h> */ #define NT_CONTENT 20 /* core_content_t <sys/corectl.h> */ #define NT_ZONENAME 21 /* string from getzonenamebyid(3C) */ #define NT_NUM 21 http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/dtrace/dtrace-90/sys/elf.h >From what I can see these numbers are standardized across systems (Linux, >FreeBSD). They are used widely e.g.: gdb, gcore (FreeBSD), file(1), lldb, binutils. I need libunwind (a dependency of quite few runtimes) for NetBSD and I just landed here. At least partial implementation doesn't look too heavy. PS. libexecinfo vs libunwind debates are irrelevant here.
