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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip 2/3] Add coredump tracepoint
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* Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:

> > Do you know about exact usecases where these tracepoints would be 
> > utilized? Would be interesting (and relevant) to list them.
> 
> Masami's colleagues do have something in particular in mind, but I'm 
> not sure whether they intend to use systemtap as part of the 
> implementation of that or not.

Some sort of flexible core dump server perhaps, driven by user-space 
logic? (vastly more flexible than coredump-filter or coredump ulimits 
are today)

	Ingo