Re: CrashReporter, signals and exception ports
Re: CrashReporter, signals and exception ports
- Subject: Re: CrashReporter, signals and exception ports
- From: Steve Checkoway <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:31:10 -0800
On Jan 6, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Jean-Francois Im wrote:
This all started when I noticed that an application's windows are
not closed until the CrashReporter's close button is clicked. It
makes sense for most applications to show a dialog instead of just
magically vanishing and leaving a dialog box behind, however, when
the application is a fullscreen window, the CrashReporter actually
appears "behind" the application, with the side effect that the
close button cannot be clicked.
This causes no end of frustration, doesn't it? *sigh*
Simple enough, I thought, it's just a matter of adding a signal
handler, catch the signal for the exceptions, close the window,
then resend the signal to ourself, thus causing the CrashReporter
to pop up. Unfortunately, CrashReporter sets up an exception port,
thus intervening before the signal handler has a chance to do
something(because the exception is not translated into a signal).
We do this just with a signal handler. We catch:
static int signals[] =
{
SIGALRM, SIGBUS, SIGFPE, SIGHUP, SIGILL, SIGINT, SIGABRT,
SIGQUIT, SIGSEGV, SIGTRAP, SIGTERM, SIGVTALRM, SIGXCPU, SIGXFSZ,
#if defined(HAVE_DECL_SIGPWR) && HAVE_DECL_SIGPWR
SIGPWR,
#endif
-1
};
And then we set up the signal handlers using:
struct sigaction sa;
sa.sa_flags = 0;
if( p != NULL )
sa.sa_flags |= SA_ONSTACK;
sa.sa_flags |= SA_NODEFER;
sa.sa_flags |= SA_SIGINFO;
sigemptyset(&sa.sa_mask);
/* Set up our signal handlers. */
sa.sa_sigaction = SigHandler;
for( int i = 0; signals[i] != -1; ++i )
sigaction( signals[i], &sa, NULL );
where p is the pointer to our signal stack set up with sigaltstack.
Doing this we can shut down the full screen graphics context and
perform any other clean up. We actually give a stack trace (among
other things) ourself and setting the handlers seems to prevent the
Crash Reporter from running.
Thus, I've searched for information on how to set up an exception
port and have it rethrow the exception after closing the window,
but documentation is quite scarce on the topic of exception ports.
I have found a couple of pointers which sent me on the right track,
but now I appear to have hit a wall.
We didn't have to do anything with exception ports to get this to work.
- Steve
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