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diff --git a/externals/breakpad/docs/mozilla_brown_bag_talk.md b/externals/breakpad/docs/mozilla_brown_bag_talk.md deleted file mode 100644 index 82461b3d05..0000000000 --- a/externals/breakpad/docs/mozilla_brown_bag_talk.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,82 +0,0 @@ -# Breakpad Crash Reporting for Mozilla - -* January 24, 2007 - * Links updated February 14, 2007 -* Mozilla HQ -* Mark Mentovai -* Brian Ryner - -## What is a crash reporter? - -* Enables developers to analyze crashes that occur in the wild -* Produces stack backtraces that help identify how a program failed -* Offers higher-level data aggregation (topcrashes, MTBF statistics) - -## Motivation - -* Talkback is proprietary and unmaintained -* Smaller open-source projects have few options -* Larger projects need flexibility and scalability - -## Design Options - -* Stackwalking done on client - * Apple CrashReporter - * GNOME BugBuddy -* Client sends memory dump - * Talkback - * Windows Error Reporting - * Breakpad - -## Goals - -* Provide libraries around which systems can be based -* Open-source -* Cross-platform - * Mac OS X x86, PowerPC - * Linux x86 - * Windows x86 -* No requirement to distribute symbols - -## Client Libraries - -* Exception handler installed at application startup - * Spawns a separate thread -* Minidump file written at crash time - * Format used by Windows debuggers -* Separate application invoked to send - * HTTP[S](S.md) POST, can include additional parameters - -## Symbols - -* Cross-platform symbol file format -* Contents - * Function names - * Source file names and line numbers - * Windows: Frame pointer omission data - * Future: parameters and local variables -* Symbol conversion methods - -## Processor - -* Examines minidump file and invokes stackwalker -* Symbol files requested from a SymbolSupplier -* Produces stack trace -* Output may be placed where convenient - -## Intergation - -* Breakpad client present in Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 for Windows - * Disabled by default - * Enable with `MOZ_AIRBAG` -* Proof-of-concept collector - * http://mavra.perilith.com/~luser/airbag-collector/list.pl -* Other platforms coming soon - -## More Information - -* Project home: https://chromium.googlesource.com/breakpad/breakpad -* Mailing lists - * [google-breakpad-dev@googlegroups.com](http://groups.google.com/group/google-breakpad-dev/) - * [google-breakpad-discuss@googlegroups.com](http://groups.google.com/group/google-breakpad-discuss/) -* Ask me (irc.mozilla.org: mento) |
