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Re: libSegFault and just in time debugging
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at sonic dot net>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:15:22 -0400
- Subject: Re: libSegFault and just in time debugging
- References: <003c01c7ba81$2abc9ce0$677ba8c0@sonic.net>
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 12:10:32PM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
> What if, instead of doing that, libSegFault (or another similar library)
> were to open a socket to a daemon and say "I caught a crash -- what
> do you want me to do?". And then wait for a reply. All that can be
> done with async-signal-safe function calls.
It's a brilliant idea. Ubuntu did it :-) It uses the Linux kernel's
core handling support, and is called apport.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport
You'll notice a bit of a way down that there's GDB output; in this
case it comes from a core dump, but I'm pretty sure the same kernel
hooks can be used to take control before the core is dumped. I'd have
to check.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery