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Re: getunwind syscall


On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:28:10PM -0500, J. Johnston wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> 
> >>>>>On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:20:13 -0500, "J. Johnston" 
> >>>>><jjohnstn@redhat.com> said:
> 
>   >> Nothing which involves a syscall is acceptable in a tdep file.
>   >> That's what the t means - target support.
> 
>   Andrew> Is this information available via /proc?  In a core file?
> 
> The unwind info for the Linux kernel does get included in the
> core-dump (see Roland McGrath's work on this), but it is not available
> via /proc.

Just to be unambiguous: I assume it's only the unwind information for
kernel functions that are visible and/or accessable in user space and
not the unwind information for the kernel at large, and the coredump
is one corresponding to a process, not the kernel; right?

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net


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