I wasn't aware that this is OK to do from a signal handler. Is it really? On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:22 AM, <dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Again Unix to the rescue. > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19147386/system-call-fork-and-execv-function > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 2015/03/10, at 18:08, Torsten Curdt <tcu...@vafer.org> wrote: > > > However the user experience is rather barren. > > The app simply dies. > > > > As well as posting the report ReportCrash(8) also allows informs the user > > of termination and allows restart. > > I know that prompting users twice for reporting is inelegant and confusing > > but crashing with no UI feedback at all is a bit mystifying - where did my > > app go! > > > > True. It would be better to have a custom dialog - but from a signal > handler? > > > Throwing up any sort of UI in the callback will be unreliable due to the > > normal re-entrant code caveats - I think the Adium code does this anyway. > > > > Where did you find that? > > Well, I guess a crash is a crash. So maybe unreliable ist acceptable if it > works most of the time. After all a crash *should* be an edge case that > does not happen too often. > > Maybe this could be done from another process? > > cheers, > Torsten > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/dangerwillrobinsondanger%40gmail.com > > This email sent to dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
