kernel during dump time.
A real life scenario is that cores are compressed to reduce
size of dumpon partition, but we either don't care about space
in the /var/crash or we have a filesystem level compression of
/var/crash. And we want cores to be uncompressed in /var/crash
because we'd like to instantily read them with kgdb. In this
case we want kernel to write cores compressed, but savecore(1)
write them uncompressed.
Reviewed by: markj, gallatin
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27245
This follows the example of other Capsicumized programs in /sbin.
Reported by: Manfred Antar <manfredantar@gmail.com>
MFC with: r342699
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
- Use cap_fileargs(3) to open dump devices after entering capability
mode, and use cap_syslog(3) to log messages.
- Use a relative directory fd to open output files.
- Use zdopen(3) to compress kernel dumps in capability mode.
Reviewed by: cem, oshogbo
MFC after: 2 months
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18458
- reimplement -z
- use syslog()
- improve consistancy of messages
- allow -f to recover cleared dumps
- return bufsize to 1024 * 1024
- return the ability to write sparse files
- update man page
- fix minfree to require 2k for info file instead of the kernel size
- include Berkeley copyright too due to amount of old code copied
Submitted by: Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>
Commandline compatible with the previous savecore unless you specify
any options, none of them are implemented (yet).
Scans all devices marked "dump" or "swap" for dump header signatures
and saves dumps off under a name which is a MD5 hash of the header
information. This should give unique filenames. A *.info file contains
ascii version of the header information.
gzip(1). gdb doesn't understand these, but then again it didn't
understand compressed crashdumps either.
* Change a stray lseek() into a Lseek()
* Remove the extraneous prototype for log() which has apparently never
existed in FreeBSD's sources
Obtained from: NetBSD (partially)
MFC after: 2 weeks
