Re: [PATCH -tip 2/3] Add coredump tracepoint

[Ingo Molnar]

* Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Do you know about exact usecases where these tracepoints would be 
> > utilized? Would be interesting (and relevant) to list them.
> 
> Masami's colleagues do have something in particular in mind, but I'm 
> not sure whether they intend to use systemtap as part of the 
> implementation of that or not.

Some sort of flexible core dump server perhaps, driven by user-space 
logic? (vastly more flexible than coredump-filter or coredump ulimits 
are today)

	Ingo
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