[Crash-utility] crash enhancements proposal

[Maneesh Soni]

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 08:59:04AM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> crash-utility-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 05/05/2006 07:38:55 AM:
> >
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> > DESCRIPTION:
> >      User space enhancements
> >      - show user space stack backtrace, if present in the dump file,
> >      - ability to link user space namelist (debug object files),
> >
> > RESOLUTION STATUS: TBD
> 
> For lcrash (lkcdutils) we have a patch, which provides
> functionality to create an elf core dump out of a
> system crash dump. This core dump can
> then be processed with gdb. We already have code to
> include swap devices and files.
> 
> Maybe that is also one option, which should be considered
> here.
 
If I am not wrong you meant, that "lcrash" is able to show user space stack
backtrace because the dump includes data from swap devices & files? 
Just wondering if you have used "crash" in the same manner?

Maneesh