From: "Michael Snyder" <msnyder@sonic.net>
To: "Daniel Jacobowitz" <drow@false.org>
Cc: <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: libSegFault and just in time debugging
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000501c7ba87$0e543760$677ba8c0@sonic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070629191522.GA2715@caradoc.them.org>
> 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.
Yes, apport is slick, but it relies on kernel mods.
This doesn't. In fact, it isn't even peculiar to Linux, it would
work on any glibc system, and in principle even on systems
that don't use glibc. Probably any unix, and even cygwin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-29 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-29 19:10 Michael Snyder
2007-06-29 19:15 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-06-29 19:52 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2007-06-29 20:00 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-06-29 20:12 ` Jim Ingham
2007-06-29 20:14 ` Jim Ingham
2007-06-29 20:24 ` Michael Snyder
2007-06-29 20:20 ` Michael Snyder
2007-06-30 10:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-30 11:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-30 15:49 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-06-30 16:03 ` Michael Snyder
2007-06-30 16:10 ` Mark Kettenis
2007-06-30 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-30 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-30 17:28 ` Dave Korn
2007-06-30 21:27 ` Michael Snyder
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