On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 09:27:10AM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: > > Well, we effectively do that already -- there's significant overlap in the > makedumpfile and crash code bases as it is. (When I look at the makedumpfile > code, it's like deja vu all over again...) > > But that's not the point. The part of the diskdump code in the crash utility > that handles the compressed data access is remarkably small. All I'm > suggesting is that since makedumpfile's chore when dealing with the > intermediate file is basically to put it back in the order used by the > diskdump > compressed file format, why couldn't the crash utility just be modified to > deal > with the intermediate file format as is?
> That way there'd be no need to > worry about what's installed on the remote repository, it would just need > to be some type of simple data warehouse. > This is an interesting point. So if "crash" can read the intermediate file, we don't have to have makedumpfile installed on remote machine to analyze the core dump. Thanks Vivek _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
