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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:48:35 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandriva.com>
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Subject: Re: +
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On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:35:39 +0200
Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandriva.com> wrote:

> akpm@osdl.org writes:
> 
> > Subject: Support piping into commands in /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
> > From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
> > 
> > Using the infrastructure created in previous patches implement support to
> > pipe core dumps into programs.
> > 
> > This is done by overloading the existing core_pattern sysctl
> > with a new syntax:
> > 
> > |program
> 
> nice but what if the core analyzer segfaults too? looping? DOS
> coredumping :-) ?

rofl.  Good question ;)