On Monday 24 July 2006 18:57, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Feel free to write something up (plain text is enough), which explains > your wishes regarding kdump/ktrace and is usable for inclusion into > the existing entry at http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/ideas/. > > Other proposals for the ideas list are accepted too, so feel free to > dump (similar to existing entries) your TODO or "nice to have" list > into our (joel and I) direction.
Modify ktrace to write to pipes. Currently the ktrace infrastructure requires the dump output go to a file. It would be useful to be able to instead have it write to pipe, or in fact any type of file descriptor. Requirements - Ability to read & write C (specifically in the kernel) - VFS/kernel internals (probably?) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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