The minidump/dump format is well-documented and understood among those in the security industry, so it's not a big secret.
Best regards, Alex Ionescu On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Bryan Donlan <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe Google's breakpad library generates windows minidump format dumps > portably (on linux, Mac etc), so that may be something to look at. Not sure > offhand what the license is,but it's something OSI-approved. > On Mar 30, 2011 6:48 AM, "Ilie Halip" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey. > > > > You're right, I haven't thought about generating a .dmp file manually, I > > guess I just took MiniDumpWriteDump for granted. A quick search for the > > Windows dump file format doesn't reveal much... There's also the issue > with > > symbol files (probably also not well documented), which are needed to get > > the stack trace. > > > > Hm, this raises many issues... I'll try to talk to Timo when I see him > > online. Thanks for the heads-up. > > > > IH. > > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Ged Murphy <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Hi Ilie, > >> > >> > >> > >> I agree that the WER would be useful. > >> > >> My main concern with this is that in order to do it correctly (meaning > as > >> per Microsoft), we would need a server setting up to consume the error > >> reports. > >> > >> I realise that there is much more to WER than reporting crashes back to > >> Microsoft, but if we start to dig into what features are available, > you’ll > >> realise that it’s a huge area. > >> > >> > >> > >> One thing what needs addressing are usermode dumps. How do we do this? > >> Ideally we’d like to output dumps in the same format as Windows does > (dmp), > >> but I’m not sure if anyone has the knowledge of the layout of these > files. > >> > >> > >> > >> If you are keen on this as a project though, I suggest you speak to Timo > in > >> IRC. Although he’s not a mentor, he has more experience than most in > raising > >> and catching exceptions and may be able to help guide you. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> As for the timescale, 30 hours per week is more than enough time to be > >> spending on a GSoC project. > >> > >> Your time is entirely managed by you anyway, you just need to strive to > >> complete before the deadline. > >> > >> > >> > >> I wish you luck in whatever you choose. > >> > >> > >> > >> Ged Murphy. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > *On > >> Behalf Of *Ilie Halip > >> *Sent:* 29 March 2011 08:46 > >> > >> *To:* [email protected] > >> *Subject:* [ros-dev] GSoC 2011 idea > >> > >> > >> > >> Hi! > >> > >> > >> My name is Ilie Halip, and I'm a student at the Faculty of Computer > >> Science, in Iasi, Romania. I'd like to take part in this year's Google > >> Summer of Code, and I was browsing the ideas page earlier. > >> > >> What caught my eye was the Management Console, but after some > discussions > >> on IRC, I got very excited about another thing not listed on the wiki > page > >> for GSoC. It's about implementing support for Windows Error Reporting. > It's > >> listed at http://reactos.org/wiki/Missing_ReactOS_Functionality. I > think > >> it's doable in less than 3 months, and might prove to be helpful too > (the > >> wiki page sais that :P). I'm not sure if you would accept this kind of > >> proposal, so I'm here to ask about that. Also, I would need a mentor to > help > >> me with this project - so... would anyone be willing to mentor me, if > this > >> project would be accepted? I was also looking at WMI, but I know it's > huge, > >> and I'm not sure how much of it would be required to consider such a > project > >> successful. > >> > >> Also, another thing I should mention. I do have a full time job right > now. > >> That's a reason I didn't dive into anything bigger listed on the ideas > page. > >> Even though I do have some experience writing Windows drivers (I wrote a > >> file system filter driver 2 years back), I don't think I'd be able to > write > >> an Intel HDA driver in less than 3 months. But I talked to my superiors, > and > >> they are willing to let me work part-time during GSoC, so I should be > able > >> to work for my would-be project about 30 hours/week. Do you think that's > >> enough? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Ilie. > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Ros-dev mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > >> > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > >
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