linux-kernel - Re: Extending coredump note section to contain filenames

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Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:31:44 +0100
From:	Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@...hat.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Kushal Das <kdas@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Extending coredump note section to contain filenames

On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:21:02 +0100, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> In particular, for libraries which aren't installed in standard system
> directories (because they are test versions or mapped with dlopen()) it
> would be good to have a hint of where to find them.  The build-id can
> then tell you if you have the right version.

I believe "/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern" was created so that Linux kernel
does not have to contain code dumping of many associated info, the filenames
seem to me to belong in this category.


Regards,
Jan
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