Re: fhpd user interaction (and corefiles)

[Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>]

Phil Muldoon wrote:
> Andrew Cagney wrote:
>> Phil Muldoon wrote:
>>> The question here then: if the LinuxHost code has a question for the 
>>> user, how does it ask that user the question via CoreCommand? As far 
>>> as I can tell, none of the fhpd commands are interactive.
Further on from yesterdays talks, this is the workflow:

(fhpd) core core.1234

Error: Could not find executable: 'a.out' specified for corefile. You 
can specify one with the core command. E.g: core core.file yourexefile. 
Alternatively you can tell fhpd to ignore the executable with -noexe. 
E.g core core.file -noexe. No corefile has been loaded at this time.


Then from that point:

core core.1234 -noexe
(basic metadata only)

or

core core.1234 /home/foo/a.out
(override exe option in the corefile)

There's an issue here. How do you lint that /home/foo/a.out really is 
the executable  that matches the corefiles? I could check the name in 
the corefile, but that sort of negates the point of having an overriding 
executable. If it is not the executable, the metadata builders gets very 
confused pretty fast as the PT_LOADS in the exe look nothing like they 
should.

This leads onto another question. If a set is "half built" as it were, 
how does one clear that set and start from fresh? Or just simply replace 
whatever is in that set, good or bad, with a new fresh set of processes 
and tasks?
Regards

Phil