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From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r276008 - in head/sys: kern sys
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 14:17:42 -0500
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On Monday, December 22, 2014 1:29:38 pm Rui Paulo wrote:
> On Dec 22, 2014, at 06:40, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Is there something specific to core dumps that makes vn_fullpath() more
> > useful to have working before a process tries to open the core?  (As
> > compared to other newly-created files)
> 
> Yes: the ability to provide the full path to userland when a core dump file 
is generated.

Can you be more specific?  Are we printing the path on the console after
destroying the generated path?  Is it being written into a note in the core
itself (but only having the vnode of the core file available and not the 
generated path)?

-- 
John Baldwin