From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751011AbWHPIoh (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:44:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751013AbWHPIoh (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:44:37 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:61869 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751009AbWHPIoh (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:44:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:43:54 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [3/3] Support piping into commands in /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern Message-ID: <20060816084354.GF24139@kroah.com> References: <20060814127.183332000@suse.de> <20060814112732.684D313BD9@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060814112732.684D313BD9@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 01:27:32PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Using the infrastructure created in previous patches implement support > to pipe core dumps into programs. > > This is done by overloading the existing core_pattern sysctl > with a new syntax: > > |program Very nice, do you happen to have a program that can accept this kind of input for crash dumps? I'm guessing that the embedded people will really want this functionality. thanks, greg k-h