From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Christopher S. Aker" <caker@theshore.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Feature Request?] Inline compression of process core dumps
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:28:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070412172845.58bfeff5@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461E55C6.1030905@theshore.net>
> There are userspace solutions to this problem: allowing the
> uncompressed core dump to spin out to disk and then coming in afterwards
> and doing the compression, or maybe even a compressed filesystem where
> the core dumps land, but I just thought I'd throw this out there since
> it seems it would be a useful feature :)
Indeed. So useful that in current kernels you can set the core dump path
to be
"|application"
and it will call out to the helper. Take care with the helper as it will
get run for setuid apps, roots core dumps etc.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-12 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-12 15:52 Christopher S. Aker
2007-04-12 16:09 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2007-04-12 16:18 ` Guillaume Chazarain
2007-04-12 16:28 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-04-12 16:42 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2007-04-12 17:45 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-13 2:22 ` Christopher S. Aker
2007-04-13 2:38 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-13 2:57 ` Christopher S. Aker
2007-04-13 4:21 ` Jeff Dike
2007-04-13 10:55 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-13 12:23 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-13 14:59 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-13 15:43 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-13 16:17 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-13 19:42 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-13 12:39 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-13 13:38 ` Christopher S. Aker
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