Re: Extending coredump note section to contain filenames

[Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:12:41 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> ec1fd70dbee0db36eff9527254d9d2bbfd260f13 0x2093 - /usr/bin/md5sum
> ec1fd70dbee0db36eff9527254d9d2bbfd260f13 0x1659 - /usr/bin/md5sum
> 
> If anyone would want to use this tool on a large collection
> of coredumps with the intent of fishing out similar crashes

In such moment it is already on public Internet and the build-id -> name
mapping database is available.

Or it rather would be available if the Darkserver would be finished.  So far
I have only always seen every project for build-id targeted at getting rid of
the build-id and map it back to the ambiguous filenames / package names.

In such case there could filename / package name already in the ELF header.
build-id should be there as a feature, not as a complication.


> (this is not a theoretical assumption, we *do* have people
> who badly need this feature), they won't get nice names of binaries,

If someone does 'cp /usr/bin/md5sum ~/bin/mysum' then you either get
unidentifiable names or even misleading names.


Regards,
Jan