From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964807AbWHQLJO (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:09:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964808AbWHQLJO (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:09:14 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:21161 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964807AbWHQLJN (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:09:13 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] [3/3] Support piping into commands in /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern From: Alan Cox To: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton , Greg KH , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060817094640.GA3173@muc.de> References: <20060814127.183332000@suse.de> <20060814112732.684D313BD9@wotan.suse.de> <20060816084354.GF24139@kroah.com> <20060816111801.0fc5093e.ak@muc.de> <20060816111025.1ab702a1.akpm@osdl.org> <20060817094640.GA3173@muc.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:27:44 +0100 Message-Id: <1155814064.15195.60.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ar Iau, 2006-08-17 am 11:46 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen: > Several people from the embedded area wrote me privately > it would be useful for them. Also I think once it's in the main kernel > there will be more incentive for user space to use it and I'm optimistic > it will get some adoption (ok I guess I should write some better > documentation, but there was no obvious place for it) I don't believe that piping as such as neccessarily the right model, but the ability to intercept and processes core dumps from user space is asked for by many enterprise users as well. They want to know about, capture, analyse and process core dumps, often centrally and in automated form. Alan