Re: [PATCH] support for gzipped (ELF) core dumps

[linux-os]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Jan Frey wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've written a patch for 2.4.28 kernel which enables writing of core
> dump files for ELF binaries in .gz format. This is interesting when
> using and debugging large binaries. In my case core files exceeded 1GB
> and got written via NFS...
> Anyhow, below patch is not really "beautiful", especially CRC looks
> quite annoying here. Consequently it is to be seen as "proof of concept"
> and I'm open for further discussion.
>
> Is anybody else interested in something like this at all?
>
> Regards,
> Jan

But that's what modules are for! It would nice to have a module
that could be inserted when the capability is needed. Certainly
you don't expect everybody to keep those unused CRC tables in
the kernel forever. Do you?

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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