From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Questions about ptrace on a dying process
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:12:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2mx81pi7x.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F4E6915.1010209@am.sony.com> (Tim Bird's message of "Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:06:13 -0800")
Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> writes:
> ptrace maintainers (and interested parties)...
>
> I'm working on a crash handler for Linux, which uses ptrace to retrieve information
> about a process during it's coredump. Specifically, from within a core handler
> program (started within do_coredump() as a user_mode_helper), I would like to make
> ptrace calls against the dying process.
The standard approach is to define a core pipe handler and parse the
elf memory dump.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-29 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-29 18:06 Questions about ptrace on a dying process Tim Bird
2012-02-29 18:50 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-02-29 20:53 ` Tim Bird
2012-02-29 19:12 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2012-02-29 20:45 ` Tim Bird
2012-03-01 7:12 ` Denys Vlasenko
2012-03-01 18:18 ` Tim Bird
2012-03-02 1:29 ` Denys Vlasenko
2012-03-01 18:30 ` Tim Bird
2012-03-01 19:02 ` Denys Vlasenko
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