From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 128331 invoked by alias); 23 Oct 2017 13:41:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 128276 invoked by uid 89); 23 Oct 2017 13:41:41 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*o:Research, Worked, our X-HELO: mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (HELO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com) (148.163.156.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:41:40 +0000 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098404.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.21/8.16.0.21) with SMTP id v9NDdg4O070369 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 09:41:38 -0400 Received: from e06smtp12.uk.ibm.com (e06smtp12.uk.ibm.com [195.75.94.108]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2dsh301hnf-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 09:41:38 -0400 Received: from localhost by e06smtp12.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:41:36 +0100 Received: from b06cxnps3074.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (9.149.109.194) by e06smtp12.uk.ibm.com (192.168.101.142) with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:41:33 +0100 Received: from d06av21.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av21.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.105.232]) by b06cxnps3074.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id v9NDfWnm27263136; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:41:32 GMT Received: from d06av21.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFBFF52045; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:35:45 +0100 (BST) Received: from oc1027705133.ibm.com (unknown [9.152.212.164]) by d06av21.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8ACFE5203F; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:35:45 +0100 (BST) From: Andreas Arnez To: Pedro Alves Cc: Ulrich Weigand Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] GDB test suite: Get core files on targets with systemd-coredump References: <1505760152-28775-1-git-send-email-arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1505760152-28775-3-git-send-email-arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <38b0202f-5c78-a8bb-7bc8-e86f3a02ca33@redhat.com> <6b3a1715-22ee-2cb0-03be-1d98d2a3a237@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:41:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <6b3a1715-22ee-2cb0-03be-1d98d2a3a237@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Thu, 19 Oct 2017 11:48:17 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 17102313-0008-0000-0000-000004A2F6D5 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 17102313-0009-0000-0000-00001E355CBF Message-Id: X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2017-10-23_05:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1707230000 definitions=main-1710230195 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-10/txt/msg00715.txt.bz2 On Thu, Oct 19 2017, Pedro Alves wrote: [...] > If coredumpctl Just Worked flawlessly for our testsuite's use > case (which is not like a regular user's use case), then I'd be all > for this. My problem is really that it doesn't really work > all that well, [...] FWIW, to help the GDB test suite (and others) in the future, I've opened a systemd feature request to support switching to "classical" core dump behavior for certain programs: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/7166 Anyone interested, feel free to subscribe. -- Andreas