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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2021-04-02 13:52:56 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2021-05-05 13:59:23 +0200
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parentman: add an example of coredumpctl output (diff)
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coredump: use "POSIX quotes" for cmdline
$ coredumpctl info |grep Command Command Line: bash -c kill -SEGV $$ (before) Command Line: bash -c "kill -SEGV \$\$" (road not taken, C quotes) Command Line: bash -c $'kill -SEGV $$' (now, POSIX quotes) Before we wouldn't use any quoting, making it impossible to figure how the command line was split into arguments. We could use "normal" quotes, but this has the disadvantage that the commandline *looks* like it could be pasted into the terminal and executed, but this is not true: various non-printable characters cannot be expressed in this quoting style. (This is not visible in this example). Thus, "POSIX quotes" are used, which should allow any command line to be expressed acurrately and pasted directly into a shell prompt to reexecute. I wonder if we should another field in the coredump entry that simply shows the original cmdline with embedded NULs, in the original /proc/*/cmdline format. This would allow clients to format the data as they see fit. But I think we'd want to keep the serialized form anyway, for backwards compatibility.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/coredumpctl.xml2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/coredumpctl.xml b/man/coredumpctl.xml
index 68ba6dc9f2..6ceed41b05 100644
--- a/man/coredumpctl.xml
+++ b/man/coredumpctl.xml
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ Fri … 552351 1000 1000 SIGSEGV present /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox 28.7M
GID: 1000 (user)
Signal: 11 (SEGV)
Timestamp: Mon 2021-01-01 00:00:01 CET (20s ago)
- Command Line: bash -c kill -SEGV $$
+ Command Line: bash -c $'kill -SEGV $$'
Executable: /usr/bin/bash
Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/…
Unit: user@1000.service