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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [3/3] Support piping into commands in /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:27:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155814064.15195.60.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060817094640.GA3173@muc.de>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-17 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20060814 127.183332000@suse.de>
2006-08-14 11:27 ` [PATCH] [1/3] Some cleanup in the pipe code Andi Kleen
2006-08-14 11:27 ` [PATCH] [2/3] Create call_usermodehelper_pipe() Andi Kleen
2006-08-15 21:22   ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-16  2:13     ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-16  7:22       ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-14 11:27 ` [PATCH] [3/3] Support piping into commands in /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern Andi Kleen
2006-08-15  0:43   ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-15  6:04     ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-16  8:43   ` Greg KH
2006-08-16  9:18     ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-16 18:10       ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-17  9:46         ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-17 11:27           ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-08-18  5:30             ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-18  8:29               ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-18 12:01                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-18 12:10                   ` Arjan van de Ven

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