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To: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky@telemetry-investments.com>
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Subject: Re: [Feature Request?] Inline compression of process core dumps
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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: 12 Apr 2007 19:45:52 +0200
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"Bill Rugolsky Jr." <brugolsky@telemetry-investments.com> writes:
> 
> The current functionality doesn't parse command line arguments into argv,
> nor provide the % variable replacements in the environment, so it is
> somewhat less useful than it could be. 

That was intentional because all this information is in the core dump itself
or in the environment.

-Andi