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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - Improve GDB backtrace generation for GTK/EFL"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128928#c6">Comment # 6</a>
on <a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - Improve GDB backtrace generation for GTK/EFL"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128928">bug 128928</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:mcatanzaro@igalia.com" title="Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@igalia.com>"> <span class="fn">Michael Catanzaro</span></a>
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<pre>coredumpctl is not useful for bots -- anything that makes coredumps display in the web interface would be a great solution there -- but for humans running tests manually, we should try to figure out a solution that doesn't require editing core_pattern to disable it.
(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=128928#c5">comment #5</a>)
<span class="quote">> 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)</span >
Huh, I didn't realize that. I thought all Linux except Gentoo was using systemd nowadays (certainly it's installed on the bots I used yesterday), and that it was designed to handle unprivileged containers nicely -- that's the whole point of machinectl, right? but I've hardly used containers myself.
<span class="quote">> So... the main question.... is coredumpctl able to get and print the
> environ variables that a program had defined when it crashed for a given
> coredump? If is not, I don't think it will be of any help here.</span >
Hm, I don't think so. You can match on an awful lot, anything listed in systemd.journal-fields(7), but not environment variables. It'd be easy to add though, since it has access to /proc/$pid/environ as you say, we'd just need to make it save the environment as a journal field. This is how the abrt coredumpctl integration was written -- abrt needed more info on the coredumps, so they modified coredumpctl to save it in journal fields. But that is a lot more work....</pre>
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