HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com> writes: > The breakage was caused by the introduction of new NT_VMCORE_PAD to > "VMCOREINFO" name, except for which it worked fine. But it will be > dropped in the next version. It'll be no problem for some time. > > The breakage was caused by makedumpfile itself due to the bug that it > had so far seen note type only, not note name. It was possible to > avoid the breakage by choosing another note name but I didn't do > it. This topic will probably arise when some kind of new note types > are needed. Yes. Not ignoring unknown note types is a a deficiency in makedumpfile. And definitely not something to keep us from introducing new note types. It should be noted that a common use of /proc/vmcore is to do: cp /proc/vmcore /somepath/core gdb /somepath/core makedumpfile is just an optimization on that for people who want to write a smaller file. Eric
