Re: Extending coredump note section to contain filenames

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/12/2012 05:36 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:31:43 +0100, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> This is basically providing the dso_list and executable information.
>> Several of the other things you list above (cmdline, environ, pid,
>> reason, maps) are already part of a core file.
> 
> dso_list and executable identification (their build-id) are also part of the
> core file.  It is only filesystem defect it can map filename -> content but it
> cannot map build-id -> content.  There are many indexing solutions for it,
> including slocate, when you have started to talk about not 100% reliable
> solutions.

There is no 100% reliable solution possible -- you have no guarantee of
any kind that the library executable still exists.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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