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Coredump Socket Support Merged For Linux 6.16


As an alternative to Coredumps dumping to a file or a pipe connected to a user-mode helper process, Linux 6.16 is introducing the ability to send Coredumps over an AF_UNIX socket.

Microsoft engineer Christian brauner who authored this Coredump socket support explained the situation and how the Linux world benefits from this work: Instead the kernel just connects to the AF_UNIX socket and userspace can process it concurrently however it sees fit. More details on the Coredump over sockets support via this merge earlier in the week to the mainline kernel.

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