Re: [Crash-utility] user-space enhancements

----- "James Bradshaw" <jbradsha(a)enterasys.com&gt; wrote: The items in the TODO list, with the exception of the first one about the "search" command, are all essentially "wish-list" items. They were originally requested to be put there by IBM several years ago when the http://people.redhat.com/anderson site was instantiated as the "upstream" source of the crash utility. The only item that I'm aware of that somebody is actually looking into is the one regarding "local variables", where I believe the guy looking into it is part of the IBM LTC in India. I don't expect much to come out of it, though, because for one thing it presumes that the crash utility's backtrace frame information is etched in stone -- and with the exception of ia64 which has unwind information actually built into the kernel -- the backtrace is essentially a "best-guess" operation. So trying to pull local arguments (or function arguments for that matter) from a dubious source doesn't make a whole lot of sense. As far as a user-space backtrace, I still think the way to go is to work on creating a core dump file of the requested task, and then use gdb externally on that core file, completely outside of the crash utility. Trying to overload the crash utility with a bunch of user-space stuff is something I don't have a lot of interest in. Dave