Re: [Feature Request?] Inline compression of process core dumps

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 05:17:27PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Here's a patch. It just doesn't do any formatting for the pipe case.
> 
> I don't see a reaosn for removing the formatting features. There are ways
> that can usefully be used, although not many. It's also messier than the
> patch I posted while less functional IMHO.

To make formatting for pipes useful you would need to split arguments.
I chose not to do it because all the information in the format can be gotten
in other ways already -- either from the coredump or from the environment

-Andi
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