Re: ANN: crash extension for networking stuff

Hi Alex,

Nice.  Now that's a serious extension!

I'd like to add a reference to the general Python/Crash API
as a third main
section to the htt
p://people.redhat.com/anderson/extensions.html page,
with
a subsection within it that references xportshow as an
example.  (And then
in the future any new commands made the same way could be
added.)

If you want to tinker with that html page and send me a copy
off-line,
please do so -- I just don't want to butcher the
explanation.  And
if you don't want to do any html hacking (it's a pretty
simple page),
just tell me how you'd like to describe/format it, and I'll
take it
from there.

Again, really nice work -- thanks,
   Dave

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On March 20, 2008 04:27:17 pm Dave Anderson wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Nice.  Now that's a serious extension!
>
> I'd like to add a reference to the general Python/Crash
API as a third main
> section to the htt
p://people.redhat.com/anderson/extensions.html page,
with
> a subsection within it that references xportshow as an
example.  (And then
> in the future any new commands made the same way could
be added.)
>
> If you want to tinker with that html page and send me a
copy off-line,
> please do so -- I just don't want to butcher the
explanation.  And
> if you don't want to do any html hacking (it's a pretty
simple page),
> just tell me how you'd like to describe/format it, and
I'll take it
> from there.
>
> Again, really nice work -- thanks,
>    Dave

Hi Dave,

I'll edit that page next week. API documentation needs to be
updated - as I am 
the only developer at this moment (my HP colleagues are just
using the built 
extension) I was neglecting developer's documentation.
Hopefully if extension 
becomes popular, HP will let me spend more time working on
it. I have many 
ideas - e.g. designing a special high-level easy-to-use
language describing 
how to obtain different variables from different kernels.
This should make it 
easy to add support for new kernels - but this is in early
stages yet (due to 
lack of time). If someone interested _both_ in Linux
dump-analysis and Python 
starts helping me, the progress would be much faster.

BTW, it is possible to use the extension file to add new
Python programs 
without rebuilding it - you can either put new scripts in
directories defined 
by an environment variable PYKDUMPPATH, or use 'zip' to add
them to the 
extension file directly. 

Regards,
Alex


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Alexandre Sidorenko             email: alexshplinux.canada.hp.com
Global Solutions Engineering:   Unix Networking
Hewlett-Packard (Canada)
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