From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Pallewatta Mano-FPCD67 <Mano.Pallewatta@motorola.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-2.6.16.51 gzipped core dump patch
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 02:38:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070904013811.GX21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1188AA083E6C7C4EBCE34803004A84014FE921@de01exm72.ds.mot.com>
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:49:00PM -0400, Pallewatta Mano-FPCD67 wrote:
> Hi,
> The attached patch is based on Jan Frey's previous patch posted in 2004
> for the Linux 2.4 kernel. It has been tested on X86 and MIPS platforms.
> If the core pattern doesn't end in ".gz" it will be added to the name of
> the core file. It's offered under GPL v2 without any warranties. If you
> have any questions, please contact me directly at Mano.Pallewatta "at"
> motorola.com.
This is silly, IMO - why do in kernel what can be done in userland? External
process can damn well gzip/bzip2/uuencode and post to alt.sex.cthulhu.binaries/
whatever. Just feed the usual data to its stdin...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-04 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-04 0:49 Pallewatta Mano-FPCD67
2007-09-04 1:38 ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-09-04 2:32 ` Pallewatta Mano-FPCD67
2007-09-04 3:26 ` Al Viro
2007-09-04 4:04 ` Pallewatta Mano-FPCD67
2007-09-04 4:12 ` Al Viro
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