On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:08:12AM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: > Neil Horman wrote: > > > > > > Agreed on all counts... > > > > > > Keep in mind, however, that the use of the makedumpfile "-c" option will > > > be fairly > > > common, and gdb cannot read compressed dumpfiles. If you want to maintain > > > gdb compatibility across the board, perhaps there should be yet another > > > option > > > that translates a compressed dumpfile into an ELF vmcore? > > > > > There is, I think its the -E option. > > Neil > > > > There is a -E option, which creates an ELF core dump from the > /proc/vmcore file. My question is whether makedumpfile can > take a compressed dumpfile that was created with -c, and then > at a later point in time, create an ELF vmcore from it. > Ahh, I don't think it can do that at this point. My bad. Neil
> Dave > > > > > > > My only thought was that it may be be fairly trivial to implement support > > > for the intermediate file format in crash. And it that's true, why not? > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > > > -- > > /*************************************************** > > *Neil Horman > > *Software Engineer > > *Red Hat, Inc. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *gpg keyid: 1024D / 0x92A74FA1 > > *http://pgp.mit.edu > > ***************************************************/ > -- /*************************************************** *Neil Horman *Software Engineer *Red Hat, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] *gpg keyid: 1024D / 0x92A74FA1 *http://pgp.mit.edu ***************************************************/ _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
