On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:32:00PM -0400, Pallewatta Mano-FPCD67 wrote:
> This patch was developed for embedded systems which had limited space
> for file storage. If an external process is to compress core files you
> will need to store those files somewhere first as core dump output
> cannot be directly fed to the stdin of compression program.
Why? Create a pipe, start a new process, put the reader struct file
into its descriptor table as stdin, do execve in new process and
pass the writer struct file to ->core_dump().
As the matter of fact, it's already done - see
lock_kernel();
ispipe = format_corename(corename, core_pattern, signr);
unlock_kernel();
if (ispipe) {
/* SIGPIPE can happen, but it's just never processed */
if(call_usermodehelper_pipe(corename+1, NULL, NULL, &file)) {
printk(KERN_INFO "Core dump to %s pipe failed\n",
corename);
goto fail_unlock;
}
} else
file = filp_open(corename,
O_CREAT | 2 | O_NOFOLLOW | O_LARGEFILE | flag,
0600);
in do_coredump(). So take a look at fs/exec.c:format_corename() and see
what to feed for it in order to get the equivalent of your patch.
core_patttern is set by sysctl (just say
echo [whatever] >/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
and don't forget quoting, since | should be the first character to indicate
that you want to pipe coredump through a helper).
I really don't see a reason to do that kind of work in the kernel, embedded
system or not.
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