Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:31:43 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Extending coredump note section to contain filenames |
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On 03/12/2012 05:27 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:16:30 +0100, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> That's quite absurd if you think about it... we're talking about each >> individual library, not necessarily the root binary. > > Denys is also working on ABRT which already dumps a lot of useful info > associated with a core file: > abrt_version analyzer architecture cmdline component coredump count > dso_list environ executable hostname kernel maps os_release package > pid pwd reason time uid username uuid var_log_messages > > I find the local copy instances of the files of specific build the same or > even less less useful info than those files above. > > One should start implementing dumping all the info above info Linux kernel > before the filenames are worth it. >
This is basically providing the dso_list and executable information. Several of the other things you list above (cmdline, environ, pid, reason, maps) are already part of a core file. The rest sounds like an RFE to me.
-hpa
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