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From: Padraig Brady <padraig@antefacto.com>
To: Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] core file naming option
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:30:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BB1BC51.4070102@antefacto.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BB104A9.3AD512A5@inet.com>

Eli Carter wrote:

>Alan et. all,
>
>The attached patch adds an option to the build to have core files named
>core.processname, but defaulting to the current behaviour of course. 
>For most people the single 'core' file is sufficient, but when the sky
>is falling, it's nice to have more places for it to land.  :)
>So, is this something that might go into the kernel, or are their
>philisophical reasons against it?  (The patch is against 2.2.19.  I
>haven't looked at 2.4.x yet.  Let me know if you want a 2.4 or if I
>should send it to Linus, or...)
>
>Questions, comments, etc. welcome,
>
Other Unix' have used core.pid as the name. Wouldn't this be better?
Especially when the process name is already stored in a core file
(`file core` will give you this). Hmm I wonder could we use this
core.pid format to dump the core for each thread (probably a bad idea).

Padraig.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-26 11:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-25 22:26 [PATCH] core file naming option Eli Carter
2001-09-26 11:30 ` Padraig Brady [this message]
2001-09-26 16:22   ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 17:23     ` Eli Carter
2001-09-28 18:34       ` n0ano
2001-09-28 19:54         ` Eli Carter
2001-09-27 16:17 ` bill davidsen
2001-09-27 17:09   ` Eli Carter
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-08 21:32 Phil Edwards

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