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| author | ted.mielczarek@gmail.com <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com@4c0a9323-5329-0410-9bdc-e9ce6186880e> | 2012-09-18 18:51:56 +0000 |
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| committer | ted.mielczarek@gmail.com <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com@4c0a9323-5329-0410-9bdc-e9ce6186880e> | 2012-09-18 18:51:56 +0000 |
| commit | 67364c1326644c953caf34c92edc91117c71282c (patch) | |
| tree | 2d1c902172ba53783488fe4d53bfbc0a381cfd9f /src/client/linux/handler/exception_handler.h | |
| parent | Allow generating minidumps from live processes on Windows. (diff) | |
| download | breakpad-67364c1326644c953caf34c92edc91117c71282c.tar.xz | |
Allow generating minidumps from live process on Linux via ExceptionHandler
Original patch by Chris Jones <jones.chris.g@gmail.com> at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544936 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555309
R=mark at https://breakpad.appspot.com/449003/
git-svn-id: http://google-breakpad.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@1043 4c0a9323-5329-0410-9bdc-e9ce6186880e
Diffstat (limited to 'src/client/linux/handler/exception_handler.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/client/linux/handler/exception_handler.h | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/client/linux/handler/exception_handler.h b/src/client/linux/handler/exception_handler.h index 68953adf..7e6f8649 100644 --- a/src/client/linux/handler/exception_handler.h +++ b/src/client/linux/handler/exception_handler.h @@ -167,6 +167,23 @@ class ExceptionHandler { MinidumpCallback callback, void* callback_context); + // Write a minidump of |child| immediately. This can be used to + // capture the execution state of |child| independently of a crash. + // Pass a meaningful |child_blamed_thread| to make that thread in + // the child process the one from which a crash signature is + // extracted. + // + // WARNING: the return of this function *must* happen before + // the code that will eventually reap |child| executes. + // Otherwise there's a pernicious race condition in which |child| + // exits, is reaped, another process created with its pid, then that + // new process dumped. + static bool WriteMinidumpForChild(pid_t child, + pid_t child_blamed_thread, + const string& dump_path, + MinidumpCallback callback, + void* callback_context); + // This structure is passed to minidump_writer.h:WriteMinidump via an opaque // blob. It shouldn't be needed in any user code. struct CrashContext { |