The patch titled
document the core-dump-to-a-pipe patch
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
document-the-core-dump-to-a-pipe-patch.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: document the core-dump-to-a-pipe patch
From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
The pipe-a-coredump-to-a-program feature was undocumented.
*Grumble*.
NB: a good enhancement to that patch would be: save all the stuff that a
core file can get from the %x expansions in the environment.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt~document-the-core-dump-to-a-pipe-patch Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt~document-the-core-dump-to-a-pipe-patch
+++ a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ valid for 30 seconds.
core_pattern:
core_pattern is used to specify a core dumpfile pattern name.
-. max length 64 characters; default value is "core"
+. max length 128 characters; default value is "core"
. core_pattern is used as a pattern template for the output filename;
certain string patterns (beginning with '%') are substituted with
their actual values.
@@ -105,6 +105,9 @@ core_pattern is used to specify a core d
%h hostname
%e executable filename
%<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
+ written to the standard input of that program instead of to a file.
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from smurf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
document-the-core-dump-to-a-pipe-patch.patch
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