faultrep:display useful information in ReportFault

[Jérôme Gardou]

Mikołaj Zalewski a écrit :
>
>  I've written a dialog about a crash some time ago to add to winedbg 
> (http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2009-January/068073.html). 
> It's probably time to ask what is the status of this patch?
>  If this patch gets accepted (Alexandre seemed to like the previous 
> version, but pointed that it broke kernel32 tests because there had 
> been no way to disable it and he didn't have much time to review it), 
> maybe calling `winedbg --auto` from ReportFault would be the best way 
> - you would then have a dialog (the same as during a regular crash, 
> can be disabled from the registry), the full debugger output and an 
> option to run an interactive debugger. AFAIK this is the other way 
> round than Windows does (AFAIK drwatson loads faultrep.dll into the 
> process that crashed and calls ReportFault), but loading a DLL into a 
> process where everything could be corrupted seems a strange idea.
Launching winedbg sounds good, but I wonder if calling winedbg AFTER the 
exception has been catched by the application would be useful.
It's time for me to document myself :-)
>
> Jérôme Gardou pisze:
>> Most wine users, when their app crashes, open a bug report and attach 
>> the console log. If the log contains information got from 
>> ReportFault, developers will gain some time, and have the preceding 
>> context of the call.
>>   
>  I'm affraid this is what is done by the 1% best users ;). I'd expect 
> that a typical user to complain that Linux is broken because on Linux, 
> from time to time, apps just disappear from the screen while on 
> Windows they don't. Already knowing that there is such a thing like 
> Wine requires some knowledge :).
>
> Mikołaj Zalewski
>
>
Let's rephrase it : most bug reporters expect the console log to be 
useful for developers willing to fix their problem :-)