Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] Enable coredumps to be captured from the appliance (RHBZ#619334).

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 05:20:19PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Actually it strikes me that this API is wrong. It should be something like: set-coredump-file eg. set-coredump-file /core.%t.%p.%e - Coredump to a mounted guest filesystem. This would add the /sysroot/ prefix automatically. The %-patterns would be some limited subset of what the kernel supports. set-coredump-device eg. set-coredump-device /dev/sdb - Coredump to a capture device. This would be implemented at first using a coredump-to-pipe, but we could later change the implemention to coredump directly to a device if we got a patch into the kernel to support it. clear-coredump - Clear the coredump file/device. Equivalent to setting it to NULL right now. This interface is more extensible and future-proof. We can extend it by adding more set-coredump-* methods. It's future-proof because it doesn't depend so closely on the current kernel implementation. The environment variable would have to be changed as well. - - - - The ideal future enhancement would be to get a stack trace without needing the coredump + gdb step. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw