Re: +support-piping-into-commands-in-proc-sys-kernel-core_pattern.patch added to-mm tree

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Aug 18 2006 - 14:46:20 EST


On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:35:39 +0200
Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> akpm@xxxxxxxx writes:
>
> > Subject: Support piping into commands in /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
> > From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Using the infrastructure created in previous patches implement support to
> > pipe core dumps into programs.
> >
> > This is done by overloading the existing core_pattern sysctl
> > with a new syntax:
> >
> > |program
>
> nice but what if the core analyzer segfaults too? looping? DOS
> coredumping :-) ?

rofl. Good question ;)
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