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Re: [PATCH -tip 2/3] Add coredump tracepoint
* Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:
> I can't really see what this has to do with "sched" to warrant that
> name. But, whatever.
That's a misnomer indeed. I'd suggest to introduce a separate 'signal'
subsystem category.
> Note that you put the tracepoint where it won't get called in the
> various cases where no dump is really being made because of
> RLIMIT_CORE or file failures. I suspect you would like to get those
> reported. (Perhaps especially so, since there won't be any file
> around to notice later.)
Yeah, good point.
> Also, it seems nice to give the tracepoint the chance to look at the
> actual open file in case a fancy one wants to do that.
Oh, so SystemTap is the motivator of these tracepoints? Do you know
about exact usecases where these tracepoints would be utilized? Would be
interesting (and relevant) to list them.
Ingo