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On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 12:09:21PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> What I occasionally wish is that all the magic in DDB could also be used on 
> coredumps -- i.e., that we could compile the kernel DDB bits into a user 
> binary to run on matching core dumps in order to more easily extract things 
> like WITNESS data, etc.  No doubt a moderate amount of evil would be 
> required to do this...

\me too! :-)
Now, that would *certainly* be useful! :-)
 
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