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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:31:44 +0100
From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Extending coredump note section to contain filenames
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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.


Regards,
Jan