This is a distro-independent crash dump handler for Linux. It aims to be as simple as possible while providing a reasonable amount of control; it is specifically written to avoid depending on shell scripts.
Core dumps are compressed with zstd and stored on the filesystem. All metadata about the core are attached in an extended attribute on the compressed file.
It is not ready to be used right now.
The build-time dependencies are:
- meson
- a C++20 compiler
- scdoc (optional, to build manpages)
Additional dependencies required to build and run:
- libzstd
Kernel 5.3 or newer is required at runtime, due to older kernels having potentially broken argument splitting when there are spaces in the path.
The whole system consists of 3 processes:
bandicootd- the serverbandicoot-dump- the clientbandicoot- the inspection tool
The server opens a listening socket where it expects to receive metadata about the dump plus the dump itself, and it compresses and stores the dump.
The client is expected to be used with the Linux kernel core_pattern
sysctl entry.
The inspection tool can read information about the core dumps as well as extract them.