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authorStéphane Graber <stgraber@ubuntu.com>2013-09-11 14:24:32 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-11 15:59:01 -0700
commit65aafb1e7484b7434a0c1d4c593191ebe5776a2f (patch)
tree163b908974a487e6e8bdfd893d20fb28234255d2 /Documentation
parent73af963f9f3036dffed55c3a2898598186db1045 (diff)
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coredump: add new %P variable in core_pattern
Add a new %P variable to be used in core_pattern.  This variable contains
the global PID (PID in the init namespace) as %p contains the PID in the
current namespace which isn't always what we want.

The main use for this is to make it easier to handle crashes that happened
within a container.  With that new variables it's possible to have the
crashes dumped into the container or forwarded to the host with the right
PID (from the host's point of view).

Signed-off-by: Stéphane Graber <stgraber@ubuntu.com>
Reported-by: Hans Feldt <hans.feldt@ericsson.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index ab7d16efa96b..9d4c1d18ad44 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ core_pattern is used to specify a core dumpfile pattern name.
 	%<NUL>	'%' is dropped
 	%%	output one '%'
 	%p	pid
+	%P	global pid (init PID namespace)
 	%u	uid
 	%g	gid
 	%d	dump mode, matches PR_SET_DUMPABLE and