[Crash-utility] Re: ANN: crash extension for networking stuff

[Alex Sidorenko]

On March 20, 2008 04:27:17 pm Dave Anderson wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Nice.  Now that's a serious extension!
>
> I'd like to add a reference to the general Python/Crash API as a third main
> section to the http://people.redhat.com/anderson/extensions.html page, with
> a subsection within it that references xportshow as an example.  (And then
> in the future any new commands made the same way could be added.)
>
> If you want to tinker with that html page and send me a copy off-line,
> please do so -- I just don't want to butcher the explanation.  And
> if you don't want to do any html hacking (it's a pretty simple page),
> just tell me how you'd like to describe/format it, and I'll take it
> from there.
>
> Again, really nice work -- thanks,
>    Dave

Hi Dave,

I'll edit that page next week. API documentation needs to be updated - as I am 
the only developer at this moment (my HP colleagues are just using the built 
extension) I was neglecting developer's documentation. Hopefully if extension 
becomes popular, HP will let me spend more time working on it. I have many 
ideas - e.g. designing a special high-level easy-to-use language describing 
how to obtain different variables from different kernels. This should make it 
easy to add support for new kernels - but this is in early stages yet (due to 
lack of time). If someone interested _both_ in Linux dump-analysis and Python 
starts helping me, the progress would be much faster.

BTW, it is possible to use the extension file to add new Python programs 
without rebuilding it - you can either put new scripts in directories defined 
by an environment variable PYKDUMPPATH, or use 'zip' to add them to the 
extension file directly. 

Regards,
Alex


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Alexandre Sidorenko             email: alexs at hplinux.canada.hp.com
Global Solutions Engineering:   Unix Networking
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