KCrash crash racing

Harald Sitter sitter at kde.org
Wed Aug 7 23:00:41 BST 2019


On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 7:17 PM Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>
> El dimecres, 7 d’agost de 2019, a les 16:36:31 CEST, Harald Sitter va escriure:
> > On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 10:58 PM Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > > > I am fairly out of ideas :/
> > >
> > > Tried looking at what breakpad does?
> >
> > Breakpad does mostly what we do, technically, functionally it's not an
> > "interactive" crash report while drkonqi is.
>
> Does this solve the racing issue?

It does to a degree. It's technically still a bit racy but that's
because of how SEGV works from a POSIX POV as only one thread gets the
signal and the others keep running. But, there is no additional
crashing potential from closing file descriptors while threads are
still running.

HS


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