Enhancement for the apport retracer

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Tue Apr 20 14:59:27 BST 2010


On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:07:52AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> I'm currently attending the eurosys conference in paris, where I've just
> seen the presentation for the ESD tool:
> 
> http://dslab.epfl.ch/pubs/esd
> 
> It is basically a tool for recreating the execution path that lead to a
> given crash. we already collect the stack traces from coredumps via
> apport-collect, and this tool could greatly improve the bug reports.
> 
> Perhaps worth investigating this further?

Thanks for the link, sounds interesting.  I'll have a look at the paper.  Is
there a free software implementation available?

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 - mdz



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