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Message-ID: <m2mx81pi7x.fsf@firstfloor.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:12:02 -0800
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Questions about ptrace on a dying process
Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com> writes:
> ptrace maintainers (and interested parties)...
>
> I'm working on a crash handler for Linux, which uses ptrace to retrieve information
> about a process during it's coredump. Specifically, from within a core handler
> program (started within do_coredump() as a user_mode_helper), I would like to make
> ptrace calls against the dying process.
The standard approach is to define a core pipe handler and parse the
elf memory dump.
-Andi
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ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
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