From: linux-os <linux-os@chaos.analogic.com>
To: Jan Frey <jan.frey@nokia.com>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] support for gzipped (ELF) core dumps
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:30:25 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501060826060.17938@chaos.analogic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1105017578.28175.1.camel@borcx178>
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Jan Frey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've written a patch for 2.4.28 kernel which enables writing of core
> dump files for ELF binaries in .gz format. This is interesting when
> using and debugging large binaries. In my case core files exceeded 1GB
> and got written via NFS...
> Anyhow, below patch is not really "beautiful", especially CRC looks
> quite annoying here. Consequently it is to be seen as "proof of concept"
> and I'm open for further discussion.
>
> Is anybody else interested in something like this at all?
>
> Regards,
> Jan
But that's what modules are for! It would nice to have a module
that could be inserted when the capability is needed. Certainly
you don't expect everybody to keep those unused CRC tables in
the kernel forever. Do you?
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-06 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-06 13:19 [PATCH] support for gzipped (ELF) core dumps Jan Frey
2005-01-06 13:30 ` linux-os [this message]
2005-01-06 13:43 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2005-01-08 17:27 Shaheed
2005-01-13 11:51 ` Jan Frey
2005-01-13 13:29 ` Shaheed
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