Re: [PATCH 1/4] coredump: add an interface to control the core dump routine

[David Howells]

Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yes, I agree - I don't think we presently have a way of avoiding having
> to send all of that uninteresting data down the pipe.

Have the kernel fork and exec a debug program "just in time" with the dying
process ptrace-attached in advance.  That program could then use ptrace() or
whatever to do the coredump.  I think Windows does something like that.

David
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