[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 128928] Improve GDB backtrace generation for GTK/EFL

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128928

--- Comment #9 from Philippe Normand <pnormand at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > Nice investigation indeed.
> > 
> > The right thing to do is to get cores from coredumpctl so we don't have to
> > mess around with changing the core_pattern. I'd be interested in working on
> > this eventually (for some large value of eventually).
> 
> I guess that would require the users to run systemd. This can be problematic
> on the bots (they run on unprivileged containers, and systemd don't plays
> nice there)
> 
> 
> Also I'm not sure if it will solve the main problem, that is:
> 
>  * Due to WebKit multiprocess model, our tooling for the tests can only know
> the pid of WebKitTestRunner, but not the pid of any of the childs
> (WebKitWebProcess, WebKitNetworkProcess, etc).

This can be solved by implementing private C APIs for WKContext and WKPage, like on Mac. I started a patch...

Also changing the crash log analisys as advised in the initial description of the bug.

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