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#ifndef CRASHHANDLER_H
#define CRASHHANDLER_H
#include
class LogRing;
/**
@brief The CrashHandler class
Discussion #644, step 4: on a fatal crash, flush the in-memory
LogRing to a fixed file before the process dies, so the last N log
lines leading up to the crash survive it -- today they only exist in
memory and are lost with the process.
This is the highest-risk piece of the whole logging rework (the
discussion's own words: "lands last, behind its own switch"), so its
invariants are worth restating plainly:
1. The handler must never block. It takes no locks -- LogRing itself
is lock-free for exactly this reason (see logring.h). A handler
that can hang is worse than no handler: it turns a clean crash
(which at least produces a core dump) into a hung process that has
to be force-killed, producing neither a core dump nor a ring dump.
2. The handler must never allocate. Under heap corruption -- a
plausible *cause* of the very crash being handled -- malloc may
itself deadlock or fault. Every buffer this code touches at crash
time (the dump path, the header, the ring's own storage) is
preallocated by install(), which runs once at startup in normal
(non-signal) context.
3. The handler must not swallow the crash. After writing the dump it
restores the default disposition for the signal and re-raises, so
the OS still produces a core dump (POSIX) / Windows Error
Reporting still sees the exception. A handler that "fixed" the
crash by not re-raising would destroy the post-mortem evidence a
core dump provides.
4. Only the *first* crash writes a dump. An atomic test-and-set
guards against two threads faulting simultaneously (or the handler
itself faulting while dumping) producing an interleaved or
truncated file; every crash after the first goes straight to
restore-and-re-raise.
Tested in this environment: POSIX/Linux only (sigaction, sigaltstack,
SIGSEGV/SIGABRT/SIGBUS/SIGFPE/SIGILL). The Windows path
(SetUnhandledExceptionFilter) and macOS-specific behaviour (signal
handling itself is POSIX and shares the Linux code path, but sandbox
profiles can affect where the dump file may be written) are
implemented per the discussion's guidance but could not be exercised
here -- there is no Windows or macOS build available in this sandbox.
Please sanity-check both before relying on them in the field.
*/
class CrashHandler
{
public:
/// Installs the crash handler. Must be called from normal
/// (non-signal) startup code, after the LogRing it will dump
/// exists, and only once. `ring` must outlive the process (in
/// practice: the LogRing owned by QetLogger's function-local
/// static instance, which is never destroyed before exit).
/// `dump_path` is resolved and copied into a fixed-size internal
/// buffer here; nothing under the actual signal/exception path
/// touches QString.
static void install(const LogRing *ring, const QString &dump_path);
private:
CrashHandler() = delete;
};
#endif // CRASHHANDLER_H