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Comment by notaplumber1

Are you asking why doesn't it execv(2) addr2line deep within the libc malloc implementation? Because calling execv(2) within libraries is frowned upon.. ;-)

The leak report is being generated internally by malloc. It is then logged via utrace(2) when a process is traced through ktrace(1).

The kdump utility simply dumps the report, strvis(3) escaping any potentially unsafe characters. As this is untrusted user data, passing it as the input/args to another command is unwise. Also kdump(1) uses pledge(2) and cannot execute commands.

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