From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26169 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2014 09:10:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-prs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-prs-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 26123 invoked by uid 48); 14 Oct 2014 09:10:14 -0000 From: "plasmahh at gmx dot net" To: gdb-prs@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug corefiles/15989] Native support for compressed core files Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:10:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: gdb X-Bugzilla-Component: corefiles X-Bugzilla-Version: 7.6 X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: enhancement X-Bugzilla-Who: plasmahh at gmx dot net X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: cc Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2014-q4/txt/msg00063.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15989 Dennis Lubert changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |plasmahh at gmx dot net --- Comment #2 from Dennis Lubert --- One (probably easy to solve) problem with something like fuse archivemount is, that it only mounts archives, so you have to create a tar.gz from it. Those file formats complicate things somewhat, and generally people do just want to compress the files (I do it with xz btw., which makes them factors smaller than gz) Another point is (and I stumbled over this report because I wanted such a feature too) that you often have to debug on systems where this is not possible. In a company you don't have the necessary priviliges to install the fuse stuff, your kernel and/or userspace tools are too old. And you have to debug on the system where the core file is, because you have no other system with the same .so files and other stuff installed. It might be on a customers machine where all you have is your statically linked gdb... It might not be desireable to pull dependencies of compression libraries in, but maybe gdb can support them via dlopen, and then support gz/bz2/xz/whatever if it is present. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.