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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
@@ -47,25 +47,25 @@ it to achieve design goals. Since currently we do not know how to dump oops on demand, we can only poll for it. There is a small daemon which polls kernel message buffer and dumps oopses when it sees them. -The dump is written into /var/cache/abrt/DIR. -After this, daemon spawns "abrt-process -d /var/cache/abrt/DIR" +The dump is written into /var/spool/abrt/DIR. +After this, daemon spawns "abrt-process -d /var/spool/abrt/DIR" which processes it according to configuration in /etc/abrt/*.conf. In order to catch binary crashes, we install a handler for it in /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern (by setting it to -"|/usr/libexec/abrt-hook-ccpp /var/cache/abrt %p %s %u"). -When process dumps core, the dump is written into /var/cache/abrt/DIR. -After this, abrt-hook-ccpp spawns "abrt-process -d /var/cache/abrt/DIR" +"|/usr/libexec/abrt-hook-ccpp /var/spool/abrt %p %s %u"). +When process dumps core, the dump is written into /var/spool/abrt/DIR. +After this, abrt-hook-ccpp spawns "abrt-process -d /var/spool/abrt/DIR" and terminates. When python program crashes, it invokes internel python subroutine which dumps crash info into ~/abrt/cache/DIR. -[this is a tentative plan, currently we dump in /var/cache/abrt/DIR] +[this is a tentative plan, currently we dump in /var/spool/abrt/DIR] After this, it spawns "abrt-process -d ~/abrt/cache/DIR" and terminates. -[Problem: dumping to /var/cache/abrt/DIR needs world-writable -/var/cache/abrt and allows user to go way over his +[Problem: dumping to /var/spool/abrt/DIR needs world-writable +/var/spool/abrt and allows user to go way over his disk quota. Dumping to ~/abrt/cache/DIR makes it difficult to present a list of all crashes which happened on the machine - for example, root-owned processes cannot even access user data @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ The key dbus calls served by abrt-process are: of crashes for given uid v[N]["executable"/"uid"/"kernel"/"backtrace"][N] = "contents" [see above the problem with producing this list] -- CreateReport(UUID): starts creating a report for /var/cache/abrt/DIR with this UUID. +- CreateReport(UUID): starts creating a report for /var/spool/abrt/DIR with this UUID. Returns job id (uint64). After it returns, when report creation thread has finished, JobDone(client_dbus_ID,UUID) dbus signal is emitted. @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ The key dbus calls served by abrt-process are: - Report(map_crash_data_t (map_vector_string_t)): "Please report this crash": calls Report() of all registered reporter plugins Returns report_status_t (map_vector_string_t) - the status of each call -- DeleteDebugDump(UUID): delete corresponding /var/cache/abrt/DIR. Returns bool +- DeleteDebugDump(UUID): delete corresponding /var/spool/abrt/DIR. Returns bool Development plan |