[Asterisk-code-review] debug utilities: Create the ast coredumper utility (asterisk[13])

[George Joseph]

George Joseph has uploaded a new patch set (#2). ( https://gerrit.asterisk.org/4710 )

Change subject: debug_utilities:  Create the ast_coredumper utility
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debug_utilities:  Create the ast_coredumper utility

This utility allows easy manipulation of asterisk coredumps.

* Configurable search paths and patterns for existing coredumps
* Can generate a consistent coredump from the running instance
* Can dump the lock_infos table from a coredump
* Dumps backtraces to separate files...
  - thread apply 1 bt full -> <coredump>.thread1.txt
  - thread apply all bt -> <coredump>.brief.txt
  - thread apply all bt full -> <coredump>.full.txt
  - lock_infos table -> <coredump>.locks.txt
* Can tarball corefiles and optionally delete them after processing
* Can tarball results files and optionally delete them after processing
* Converts ':' in coredump and results file names '-' to facilitate
  uploading.  Jira for instance, won't accept file names with colons
  in them.

Tested on Fedora24+, Ubuntu14+, Debian6+, CentOS6+ and FreeBSD9+[1].

[1] For *BSDs, the "devel/gdb" package might have to be installed to
get a recent gdb.  The utility will check all instances of gdb
it finds in $PATH and if one isn't found that can run python, it
prints a friendly error.

Change-Id: I935d37ab9db85ef923f32b05579897f0893d33cd
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A configs/samples/ast_debug_tools.conf.sample
M contrib/Makefile
A contrib/scripts/ast_coredumper
3 files changed, 563 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


  git pull ssh://gerrit.asterisk.org:29418/asterisk refs/changes/10/4710/2
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Gerrit-MessageType: newpatchset
Gerrit-Change-Id: I935d37ab9db85ef923f32b05579897f0893d33cd
Gerrit-PatchSet: 2
Gerrit-Project: asterisk
Gerrit-Branch: 13
Gerrit-Owner: George Joseph <gjoseph at digium.com>