GSoC Project: Automated Kernel Crash Reporting System - Discussion

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 5:30:20 pm tzabal at 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