"Sachin P. Sant" wrote: > Dave, i came across one of the Crash TODO list items about having > a scripting infrastructure in crash. > > I was trying to evaluate the Alicia utility [mentioned in todo list]. > Here are some of my observations about Alicia. > > 1] It is a wrapper on top of crash. > 2] One can write perl based scripts to extract infromation from dumps. > 3] It has a nice report generation functionality which presents > the data in text as well as html format. > 4] Provides functions which could be used to read data from crash > dumps. > 5] It is easy to use and effective too. > > Attached here is a sample script which i tried using Alicia to > display block and character devices. [ I know dev command already > does this stuff .. but for the sake of trying out the Alicia i chose > to write such a script ]. > > Also encountered few problems while trying out Alicia. > 1] On PPC64 arch came across data type overflow problem while > executing the attached script. > 2] On s390/s390x architecture class function provided by Alicia > seems broken. > 3] Alicia is a wrapper on top of crash. > > Other dump solutions [ lkcd ] has sial scripting which is c like > and very effective. Not sure how difficult it will be to implement > something like sial in crash. > > Do you have any plans of having scripting infrastructure in > crash ? If yes your thoughts on Alicia / sial / < any other stuff > > I personally do not. But, a few days ago, Luc Chouinard started looking into what it would take to support sial scripting. Dave -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
