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Re:Debugging a Linux network stack crash via a single regist... by uvdn7 on Friday November 19, 2021 @07:16PM (#29284355)
Is that the same as the decode_stacktrace.sh mentioned in the blog post or significantly more sophisticated?

I am sure we can always automate more things :)

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Re:Debugging a Linux network stack crash via a single regist... by quotemstr on Friday November 19, 2021 @07:35PM (#29284464)
A debugger lets you follow pointers and inspect the entire memory space of a program. It gives you a lot more than just a text dump of a stack.
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Re:Debugging a Linux network stack crash via a single regist... by throwawaylinux on Friday November 19, 2021 @09:48PM (#29285151)
Linux has debuggers and crash dumps.
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