Re: Time to deprecate crash dump support in stats tools (or KVM-grovelers in general)?

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

On Apr 6, 2008, at 8:04 PM, der Mouse wrote:

> > How is it any better to have the code to winkle that stuff out of a
> crash dump take the form of gdb scripts rather than the form of kmem
> grovelers?  I must be missing something; I don't see how moving from a
> stable, well-known, and thoroughly-supported language like C to a
> comparatively unknown, under-specified, moving-target language like  
> gdb
> scripting is a win.

The gdb scripts are, by their nature, tied to the kernel, which is  
appropriate for crash dump introspection.  Random user binaries for  
looking at network protocol statistics should not be.


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