GSoC Project: Automated Kernel Crash Reporting System - Discussion

[Tim Kientzle]

On May 18, 2012, at 7:51 AM, Mel Flynn wrote:

> On 17-5-2012 14:53, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
>> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:37:44PM +0300, tzabal at it.teithe.gr wrote:
> 
>>> Nice. What about curl over the HTTPS protocol?
>>> 
>> 
>> curl would be ok, except it's not in the base system.
> 
> For this reason, it's probably best to use tar(1) to package up multiple
> files and implement http put support in libfetch(3). You may also need
> to implement 305 Use Proxy support.

Depends on where the files are coming from.  If you
have files on disk, then tar(1) might be a good choice.
If you're going to have to construct the files, then you
can maybe avoid writing them to disk by using libarchive(3)
directly instead of going through the tar command-line
interface.

Tim