On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Rui Paulo <rpa...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: rpaulo > Date: Mon Feb 9 23:13:50 2015 > New Revision: 278479 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/278479 > > Log: > Notify devd(8) when a process crashed. > > This change implements a notification (via devctl) to userland when > the kernel produces coredumps after a process has crashed. > devd can then run a specific command to produce a human readable crash > report. The command is most usually a helper that runs gdb/lldb > commands on the file/coredump pair. It's possible to use this > functionality for implementing automatic generation of crash reports. > > devd(8) will be notified of the full path of the binary that crashed and > the full path of the coredump file. > What advantage does putting this in devd have over a standalone daemon for crash reporting? Is it just the ease of implementation to leverage the existing infrastructure? -Ben _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
