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

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Message-ID: <4F5E91DE.80609@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:16:30 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@...hat.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 03/12/2012 03:31 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> 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.
> 

That's quite absurd if you think about it... we're talking about each
individual library, not necessarily the root binary.

	-hpa


-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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