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Subject: Re: Extending coredump note section to contain filenames
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On 03/12/2012 03:31 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:21:02 +0100, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> In particular, for libraries which aren't installed in standard system
>> directories (because they are test versions or mapped with dlopen()) it
>> would be good to have a hint of where to find them.  The build-id can
>> then tell you if you have the right version.
> 
> I believe "/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern" was created so that Linux kernel
> does not have to contain code dumping of many associated info, the filenames
> seem to me to belong in this category.
> 

That's quite absurd if you think about it... we're talking about each
individual library, not necessarily the root binary.

	-hpa


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