Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 10:39:25 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: tzabal@it.teithe.gr Subject: Re: GSoC Project: Automated Kernel Crash Reporting System - Discussion Message-ID: <201205171039.25118.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20120516003020.82068pr8h9dyqjfw@webmail.teithe.gr> References: <20120516003020.82068pr8h9dyqjfw@webmail.teithe.gr>
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On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 5:30:20 pm tzabal@it.teithe.gr wrote: > Hello Community, > > I have the project "Automated Kernel Crash Reporting System" for this > GSoC and I would like to discuss my plans about it before starting the > coding on May 21. > > I have created a page in the FreeBSD Wiki > (http://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2012/AutomatedKernelCrashReportingSystem) > where I describe in details the architecture of the system. > > Here are some points that I would like to be discussed: > > * The implementation of the kcrashreporter is planned to be done in > two shell scripts. The first shell script is a rc.d script and the > second is the actual program. I choose to code it in shell because > kcrashreporter invokes the kgdb to collect the necessary debugging > information. I think that using the shell instead of traditional > programming language for this kind of job is more straightforward and > natural. Do you have a different opinion? Have you looked at /usr/sbin/crashinfo? -- John Baldwin
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