[Crash-utility] Re: [RFC] Crash extension for SystemTap

[Frank Eigler]

Satoru MORIYA <satoru.moriya.br at hitachi.com> writes:

> [...]
> (A) Build the shared-object(stplog.so).
> 1. Put Makefile and stplog.c into a directory ($DIR)
>     $ cd $DIR
> 2. Make the symbolic link to the crash source code directory
>     $ ln -s $WHERE_CRASH_PLACED crash

It would be nice if crash(8) had a -devel package against which such
an extension could be built.  I submitted RH bug #241045 to try to fix
this.  If that is done, we can include the stplog sources in systemtap,
and build a .so as a part of our build.

> [...]  I believe this command is very useful for system
> administrators if they monitor their systems with SystemTap.

Indeed!  Thank you.


- FChE