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Sysinternals / ProcDump-for-Linux

A Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool
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Making the Linux and Windows version more compatible to each other #86

Closed theuserbl closed 3 years ago

theuserbl commented 4 years ago

Have looked at the different options of the Linux ProcDump with the Windows documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procdump

It isn't the problem, that one ProcDump have additional options then the other. But they have same option names with different funtions.

-m, -n and -s have same functions. But -h, -c, -d, -p and -w have different functions.

-? (only for Windows) exists only on Window. Seems to be the same as on Linux the -h Windows: "Use -? -e to see example command lines."

-h (different) Linux: "Prints this help screen" Windows: "Write dump if process has a hung window (does not respond to window messages for at least 5 seconds)."

-c (different) Linux: "Trigger core dump generation when CPU is less than specified value (0 to 100 * nCPU)" Windows: "CPU threshold at which to create a dump of the process."

-m (same) Linux: "Trigger core dump generation when when memory commit is less than specified value (MB)" Windows: "Memory commit threshold in MB at which to create a dump."

-n (same) Linux: "Number of core dumps to write before exiting (default is 1)" Windows: "Number of dumps to write before exiting."

-s (same) Linux: "Consecutive seconds before dump is written (default is 10)" Windows: "Consecutive seconds before dump is written (default is 10)."

-d (different) Linux: "Writes diagnostic logs to syslog" Windows: "Invoke the minidump callback routine named MiniDumpCallbackRoutine of the specified DLL."

-p (different) Linux: "pid of the process" Windows: "Trigger on the specified performance counter when the threshold is exceeded. Note: to specify a process counter when there are multiple instances of the process running, use the process ID with the following syntax: "\Process(_)\counter""

-w (different) Linux: "Name of the process executable" Windows: "Wait for the specified process to launch if it's not running."

MarioHewardt commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the detailed write up on the similarities/differences. The challenge with aligning Win/Linux at this point is breaking existing usage of it.