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Date:      Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:22:45 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Antoine Brodin <antoine.brodin@laposte.net>
Subject:   Re: RFC: Stack saving/tracing functionality. 
Message-ID:  <1078.1118474565@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:30:06 EDT." <20050610172746.N16943@mail.chesapeake.net> 

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In message <20050610172746.N16943@mail.chesapeake.net>, Jeff Roberson writes:

>> A sysctl to enable grepping a backtrace from core-dumping processes
>> would be wonderful as well.
>
>I'm not sure I understand what you mean here?  This is designed to save
>and display kernel stacks while running.

... but it would be neat if it could also save/print userland stacks
so that we could get tracebacks from abort()'ing userland programs.

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