Re: Questions about ptrace on a dying process

[Andi Kleen]

Tim Bird <tim.bird@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> ptrace maintainers (and interested parties)...
>
> I'm working on a crash handler for Linux, which uses ptrace to retrieve information
> about a process during it's coredump.  Specifically, from within a core handler
> program (started within do_coredump() as a user_mode_helper), I would like to make
> ptrace calls against the dying process.

The standard approach is to define a core pipe handler and parse the
elf memory dump.

-Andi

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