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Re: [PATCH] issue 1628: use a custom crashhandler on Windows

From: D.J. Heap <djheap_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-01-13 03:42:01 CET

On 1/7/07, Ivan Zhakov <chemodax@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/3/07, Lieven Govaerts <lgo@mobsol.be> wrote:
> >
> > Attached is a patch that implements a crash handler (Windows specific)
> > for the command line apps. While I learned a lot from Stefan Küng's
> > patch posted here some time ago, it's basically a new implementation.
> > Review of my choices (see below) and the patch itself are greatly
> > appreciated.

I've been testing this a bit and it looks very promising, thanks!

I haven't reviewed it as thoroughly as Ivan, but I do agree with most
of his comments except:

>
> many unbuffered writes to file. I suggest create file use run-time
> function open(), then get Windows handle using _get_osfhandle() for
> MiniDumpWrite.

I don't think they are unbuffered -- I'm pretty sure the
CreateFile/WriteFile API's do buffering unless you explicitly turn it
off. And I'd say the less dependencies the better when doing a crash
dump -- the CRT could be corrupt and not even able to write a file out
(the whole process could be so corrupt that even CreateFile/WriteFile
won't work, but it seems less likely than CRT corruption).

Also, although I see a good stack trace in the log file, I don't when
I open the minidump in VS2005 or WinDbg. Are you able to get a stack
trace when inspecting the minidump with either debugger?

DJ

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