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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 5dd55303f4 coredump: use "POSIX quotes" for cmdline
$ coredumpctl info |grep Command
  Command Line: bash -c kill -SEGV $$      (before)
  Command Line: bash -c "kill -SEGV \$\$"  (road not taken, C quotes)
  Command Line: bash -c $'kill -SEGV $$'   (now, POSIX quotes)

Before we wouldn't use any quoting, making it impossible to figure how the
command line was split into arguments. We could use "normal" quotes, but this
has the disadvantage that the commandline *looks* like it could be pasted into
the terminal and executed, but this is not true: various non-printable
characters cannot be expressed in this quoting style. (This is not visible in
this example). Thus, "POSIX quotes" are used, which should allow any command
line to be expressed acurrately and pasted directly into a shell prompt to
reexecute.

I wonder if we should another field in the coredump entry that simply shows the
original cmdline with embedded NULs, in the original /proc/*/cmdline
format. This would allow clients to format the data as they see fit. But I
think we'd want to keep the serialized form anyway, for backwards compatibility.
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<refentry id="coredumpctl" conditional='ENABLE_COREDUMP'
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>coredumpctl</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>coredumpctl</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>coredumpctl</refname>
<refpurpose>Retrieve and process saved core dumps and metadata</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>coredumpctl</command>
<arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg>
<arg choice="req">COMMAND</arg>
<arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">PID|COMM|EXE|MATCH</arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><command>coredumpctl</command> is a tool that can be used to retrieve and process core
dumps and metadata which were saved by
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-coredump</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Commands</title>
<para>The following commands are understood:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>list</command></term>
<listitem><para>List core dumps captured in the journal
matching specified characteristics. If no command is
specified, this is the implied default.</para>
<para>The output is designed to be human readable and contains a table with the following
columns:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>TIME</term>
<listitem><para>The timestamp of the crash, as reported by the kernel.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>PID</term>
<listitem><para>The identifier of the process that crashed.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>UID</term>
<term>GID</term>
<listitem><para>The user and group identifiers of the process that crashed.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>SIGNAL</term>
<listitem><para>The signal that caused the process to crash, when applicable.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>COREFILE</term>
<listitem><para>Information whether the coredump was stored, and whether
it is still accessible: <literal>none</literal> means the core was
not stored, <literal>-</literal> means that it was not available (for
example because the process was not terminated by a signal),
<literal>present</literal> means that the core file is accessible by the
current user, <literal>journal</literal> means that the core was stored
in the <literal>journal</literal>, <literal>truncated</literal> is the
same as one of the previous two, but the core was too large and was not
stored in its entirety, <literal>error</literal> means that the core file
cannot be accessed, most likely because of insufficient permissions, and
<literal>missing</literal> means that the core was stored in a file, but
this file has since been removed.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>EXE</term>
<listitem><para>The full path to the executable. For backtraces of scripts
this is the name of the interpreter.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>It's worth noting that different restrictions apply to
data saved in the journal and core dump files saved in
<filename>/var/lib/systemd/coredump</filename>, see overview in
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-coredump</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
Thus it may very well happen that a particular core dump is still listed
in the journal while its corresponding core dump file has already been
removed.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>info</command></term>
<listitem><para>Show detailed information about the last core dump
or core dumps matching specified characteristics
captured in the journal.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>dump</command></term>
<listitem><para>Extract the last core dump matching specified
characteristics. The core dump will be written on standard
output, unless an output file is specified with
<option>--output=</option>. </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>debug</command></term>
<listitem><para>Invoke a debugger on the last core dump
matching specified characteristics. By default,
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>gdb</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
will be used. This may be changed using the <option>--debugger=</option>
option or the <varname>$SYSTEMD_DEBUGGER</varname> environment
variable. Use the <option>--debugger-arguments=</option> option to pass extra
command line arguments to the debugger.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Options</title>
<para>The following options are understood:</para>
<variablelist>
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-pager" />
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-legend" />
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="json" />
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-1</option></term>
<listitem><para>Show information of the most recent core dump only, instead of listing all known core
dumps. (Equivalent to <option>--reverse -n 1</option></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-n</option> <replaceable>INT</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Show at most the specified number of entries. The specified parameter must be an
integer greater or equal to 1.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-S</option></term>
<term><option>--since</option></term>
<listitem><para>Only print entries which are since the specified date.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-U</option></term>
<term><option>--until</option></term>
<listitem><para>Only print entries which are until the specified date.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-r</option></term>
<term><option>--reverse</option></term>
<listitem><para>Reverse output so that the newest entries are displayed first.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-F</option> <replaceable>FIELD</replaceable></term>
<term><option>--field=</option><replaceable>FIELD</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Print all possible data values the specified
field takes in matching core dump entries of the
journal.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-o</option> <replaceable>FILE</replaceable></term>
<term><option>--output=</option><replaceable>FILE</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Write the core to <option>FILE</option>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--debugger=</option><replaceable>DEBUGGER</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Use the given debugger for the <command>debug</command>
command. If not given and <varname>$SYSTEMD_DEBUGGER</varname> is unset, then
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>gdb</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
will be used. </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-A</option> <replaceable>ARGS</replaceable></term>
<term><option>--debugger-arguments=</option><replaceable>ARGS</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Pass the given <replaceable>ARGS</replaceable> as extra command line arguments
to the debugger. Quote as appropriate when <replaceable>ARGS</replaceable> contain whitespace.
(See Examples.)</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--file=<replaceable>GLOB</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem><para>Takes a file glob as an argument. If
specified, coredumpctl will operate on the specified journal
files matching <replaceable>GLOB</replaceable> instead of the
default runtime and system journal paths. May be specified
multiple times, in which case files will be suitably
interleaved.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-D</option> <replaceable>DIR</replaceable></term>
<term><option>--directory=</option><replaceable>DIR</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Use the journal files in the specified <option>DIR</option>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-q</option></term>
<term><option>--quiet</option></term>
<listitem><para>Suppresses informational messages about lack
of access to journal files and possible in-flight coredumps.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Matching</title>
<para>A match can be:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable>PID</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Process ID of the
process that dumped
core. An integer.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable>COMM</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Name of the executable (matches
<option>COREDUMP_COMM=</option>). Must not contain slashes.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable>EXE</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Path to the executable (matches
<option>COREDUMP_EXE=</option>). Must contain at least one
slash. </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable>MATCH</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>General journalctl match filter, must contain an equals
sign (<literal>=</literal>). See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Exit status</title>
<para>On success, 0 is returned; otherwise, a non-zero failure
code is returned. Not finding any matching core dumps is treated as
failure.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Environment</title>
<variablelist class='environment-variables'>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>$SYSTEMD_DEBUGGER</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Use the given debugger for the <command>debug</command>
command. See the <option>--debugger=</option> option.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Examples</title>
<example>
<title>List all the core dumps of a program</title>
<programlisting>$ coredumpctl list /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox
TIME PID UID GID SIG COREFILE EXE SIZE
Tue … 8018 1000 1000 SIGSEGV missing /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox n/a
Wed … 251609 1000 1000 SIGTRAP missing /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox n/a
Fri … 552351 1000 1000 SIGSEGV present /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox 28.7M
</programlisting>
<para>The journal has three entries pertaining to <filename>/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox</filename>, and
only the last entry still has an available core file (in external storage on disk).</para>
<para>Note that <filename>coredumpctl</filename> needs access to the journal files to retrieve the
relevant entries from the journal. Thus, an unprivileged user will normally only see information about
crashing programs of this user.</para>
</example>
<example>
<title>Invoke <command>gdb</command> on the last core dump</title>
<programlisting>$ coredumpctl debug</programlisting>
</example>
<example>
<title>Use <command>gdb</command> to display full register info from the last core dump</title>
<programlisting>$ coredumpctl debug --debugger-arguments="-batch -ex 'info all-registers'"</programlisting>
</example>
<example>
<title>Show information about a core dump matched by PID</title>
<programlisting>$ coredumpctl info 6654
PID: 6654 (bash)
UID: 1000 (user)
GID: 1000 (user)
Signal: 11 (SEGV)
Timestamp: Mon 2021-01-01 00:00:01 CET (20s ago)
Command Line: bash -c $'kill -SEGV $$'
Executable: /usr/bin/bash
Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/…
Unit: user@1000.service
User Unit: vte-spawn-….scope
Slice: user-1000.slice
Owner UID: 1000 (user)
Boot ID: …
Machine ID: …
Hostname: …
Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.bash.1000.….zst (present)
Disk Size: 51.7K
Message: Process 130414 (bash) of user 1000 dumped core.
Stack trace of thread 130414:
#0 0x00007f398142358b kill (libc.so.6 + 0x3d58b)
#1 0x0000558c2c7fda09 kill_builtin (bash + 0xb1a09)
#2 0x0000558c2c79dc59 execute_builtin.lto_priv.0 (bash + 0x51c59)
#3 0x0000558c2c79709c execute_simple_command (bash + 0x4b09c)
#4 0x0000558c2c798408 execute_command_internal (bash + 0x4c408)
#5 0x0000558c2c7f6bdc parse_and_execute (bash + 0xaabdc)
#6 0x0000558c2c85415c run_one_command.isra.0 (bash + 0x10815c)
#7 0x0000558c2c77d040 main (bash + 0x31040)
#8 0x00007f398140db75 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x27b75)
#9 0x0000558c2c77dd1e _start (bash + 0x31d1e)
</programlisting>
</example>
<example>
<title>Extract the last core dump of /usr/bin/bar to a file named
<filename index="false">bar.coredump</filename></title>
<programlisting>$ coredumpctl -o bar.coredump dump /usr/bin/bar</programlisting>
</example>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-coredump</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>coredump.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-journald.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>gdb</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>