On Sunday, 4 March 2007 at 0:22, Per Inge Mathisen wrote: > On 3/4/07, Dennis Schridde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >So what do you think should be done? > >Leave it as is (was before my commits) and don't try to automate the > >backtrace > >creation? Or offer a way to assist unexperienced users to create a > >backtrace? > >If yes, how? > > I don't know. The linux backtrace stuff that is in now is not very > helpful. I think if we could generate a backtrace with gdb and make it > ready to send to us somehow, that would be great. Let me do some very > quick and dirty thinking aloud: > > * During ./configure (or whatever) we find the path to gdb and an > email app, and write that into a "wz2100" script that we generate from > a "wz2100.in" template.
Why? If gdb is in the path, you don't need the full directory, and if it's not, how do you want to find it? > * Instead of starting the C binary directly, we run it through the > wz2100 script generated above, which sets ulimit to produce core > dumps, and checks for a core dump already produced, and if there is > one, offers to send an anonymous backtrace from it to some email > address we use for collecting them. It can also grab some system data > to send from various sources (uname? /proc?). Sounds like the wrapper script I sent a while ago: https://mail.gna.org/public/warzone-dev/2007-02/msg00229.html That seems like the easiest method, but you can also set up the signal handler to run gdb on a crash, see for example http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/mplayer.c?revision=22429&view=markup (search for exit_signalhandler, last part of the function). The wrapper script seems easier and more flexible, though. > I do not know of a good way to direct core dumps to a specific > location, where we know to find it, or what is a good crossplatform http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man5/core.5.html says: "By default, a core dump file is named core, but the /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern file (new in Linux 2.5) can be set to define a template that is used to name core dump files." But changing that file needs root access, so that's not very practical. > way of sending email from unix-likes, though. Also we must find a way man mail. If gdb is available, mail should be, as well. If it's not, jsut ask the user to send the file himself. > for this script to interact nicely if it is started from a GUI menu > instead of from a command-line - I do not know how hard this is, I am > a hardcore command-line junkie and hardly ever use those fancy menu > things. -- BOFH excuse #246: It must have been the lightning storm we had (yesterday) (last week) (last month) _______________________________________________ Warzone-dev mailing list Warzone-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
