[PATCH] document the core-dump-to-a-pipe patch
The pipe-a-coredump-to-a-program feature was undocumented. *Grumble*. NB: a good enhancement to that patch would be: save all the stuff that a core file can get from the %x expansions in the environment. Signed-off-by: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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core_pattern:
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core_pattern is used to specify a core dumpfile pattern name.
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. max length 64 characters; default value is "core"
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. max length 128 characters; default value is "core"
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. core_pattern is used as a pattern template for the output filename;
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certain string patterns (beginning with '%') are substituted with
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their actual values.
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%h hostname
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%e executable filename
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%<OTHER> both are dropped
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. If the first character of the pattern is a '|', the kernel will treat
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the rest of the pattern as a command to run. The core dump will be
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written to the standard input of that program instead of to a file.
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