[Crash-utility] calling crash from another program (or vice versa)

[Adrien Kunysz]

James Washer wrote:
> Often, I'd like to be able to run one crash command, massage the data
> produced, and run follow up commands using the massaged data

 From the example you give I think a SIAL or Python script 
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/pykdump/> is what
you want. As for using Perl I guess you are welcome to write
the appropriate module :)

> Has anyone had much luck using expect with crash?

We use Expect internally for some very simple things that could
probably be done with "crash -i". It works fine but for anything
not trivial it becomes a bit too hacky I think.