This follows on from http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=39292
The comments in minidump_writer.cc say:
// This code has to run in a compromised environment (the address space
// may have received SIGSEGV), thus the following rules apply:
// * You may not enter the dynamic linker. This means that we cannot call
// any symbols in a shared library (inc libc). Because of this we replace
// libc functions in linux_libc_support.h.
// * You may not call syscalls via the libc wrappers. This rule is a subset
// of the first rule but it bears repeating. We have direct wrappers
// around the system calls in linux_syscall_support.h.
However, linux/handler/exception_handler.cc uses these libc functions in a
crashed context:
* pthread_mutex_lock()
* signal()
* getpid()
* memcpy() (though this is unavoidable according to
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxCrashDumping)
Original issue reported on code.google.com by mseaborn@chromium.org on 25 Mar 2010 at 12:40
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
mseaborn@chromium.org
on 25 Mar 2010 at 12:40