From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 17 15:00:40 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C86D9106566C for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 15:00:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigknife-pt.tunnel.tserv9.chi1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f10:75::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F5568FC16 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 15:00:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E1508B9AD; Thu, 17 May 2012 11:00:39 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 10:39:25 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-CBSD-20110714-p13; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: <20120516003020.82068pr8h9dyqjfw@webmail.teithe.gr> In-Reply-To: <20120516003020.82068pr8h9dyqjfw@webmail.teithe.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201205171039.25118.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Thu, 17 May 2012 11:00:40 -0400 (EDT) Cc: tzabal@it.teithe.gr Subject: Re: GSoC Project: Automated Kernel Crash Reporting System - Discussion X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 15:00:40 -0000 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