bug reporting and file descriptors...

[Daniel J Blueman]

With certain types of bug, it really helps to know what file
descriptors were open at the time of crashing.

For example, gstreamer is crashing in libavformat, however no
information was gathered to show the path of inodes attached to the
file descriptors [1], where it would be immediately clear what file to
try and reproduce with:

$ ls -l /proc/6117/fd
0 -> /dev/null
1 -> pipe:[3602840]
2 -> /dev/pts/6
3 -> socket:[3602928]
4 -> pipe:[3602929]
5 -> pipe:[3602929]
6 -> socket:[3602931]
7 -> /home/daniel/test.mp3

Would it make sense to have this information, or have I overlooked something?

--- [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg/+bug/607718
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Daniel J Blueman