[systemd-devel] RFC: idea for a pstore systemd service

[Lennart Poettering]

On Do, 21.02.19 10:16, Eric DeVolder (eric.devolder at oracle.com) wrote:

>
> Lennart,
> As this is my first venture into systemd, I've spent some time looking into
> the source for coredump. I chose this as it was mentioned in this thread. As
> a I look at this source, I see how to create the journal entries (ie. when
> we move a file out of pstore), and other things are unclear. Some questions:
>
> - if I were to start by copying and then modifying an existing systemd
> utility, would you recommend coredump, or something else?

coredump should be fine.

> - do you anticipate this pstore utility needing to handling the likes of
> acls, xattrs, fields, etc?

i wouldn't know why

> - would there be a need for the server that is in coredump?

hmm? i'd assume it would be a separate component, but have a similar
mode of operation.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat