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| author | Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> | 2011-05-27 01:25:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-05-27 02:12:36 +0200 |
| commit | 57cc083ad9e1bfeeb4a0ee831e7bb008c8865bf0 (patch) | |
| tree | 03b491fd20b4ca3e58354b15067f6961f32a016b /Documentation | |
| parent | mm: extract exe_file handling from procfs (diff) | |
| download | linux-57cc083ad9e1bfeeb4a0ee831e7bb008c8865bf0.tar.xz linux-57cc083ad9e1bfeeb4a0ee831e7bb008c8865bf0.zip | |
coredump: add support for exe_file in core name
Now, exe_file is not proc FS dependent, so we can use it to name core
file. So we add %E pattern for core file name cration which extract path
from mm_struct->exe_file. Then it converts slashes to exclamation marks
and pastes the result to the core file name itself.
This is useful for environments where binary names are longer than 16
character (the current->comm limitation). Also where there are binaries
with same name but in a different path. Further in case the binery itself
changes its current->comm after exec.
So by doing (s/$/#/ -- # is treated as git comment):
$ sysctl kernel.core_pattern='core.%p.%e.%E'
$ ln /bin/cat cat45678901234567890
$ ./cat45678901234567890
^Z
$ rm cat45678901234567890
$ fg
^\Quit (core dumped)
$ ls core*
we now get:
core.2434.cat456789012345.!root!cat45678901234567890 (deleted)
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 36f007514db3..5e7cb39ad195 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ core_pattern is used to specify a core dumpfile pattern name. %s signal number %t UNIX time of dump %h hostname - %e executable filename + %e executable filename (may be shortened) + %E executable path %<OTHER> both are dropped . If the first character of the pattern is a '|', the kernel will treat the rest of the pattern as a command to run. The core dump will be |