[PATCH, MIPS] Extract PID from core file

Maciej W. Rozycki macro@linux-mips.org
Fri Jul 3 13:19:00 GMT 2015


On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Michael Eager wrote:

> MIPS BFD support for parsing the psinfo note record in
> a core file does not extract the PID value.  Other targets
> (eg., x86) do extract the PID.  MIPS Linux is different from
> other targets, in that it saves the PID as a 64-bit number
> (__kernel_pid_t is defined as ulong, although I can't find where).

 The typedef is in linux/include/uapi/asm-generic/posix_types.h:

typedef int		__kernel_pid_t;

so your change can't be right -- have you tried it with a big-endian core 
file?

> Tested on MIPS32 (N32).

 Hmm, n32 is MIPS64.  MIPS32 is o32 only.

  Maciej



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