On Jul 11, 2016, at 11:44 AM, Alastair Houghton <alast...@alastairs-place.net> wrote: > > On 11 Jul 2016, at 15:04, Motti Shneor <motti.shn...@me.com> wrote: >> >> I develop a global daemon, maintained by launchd. Obviously It cannot be >> distributed in the Mac App Store. To collect crash-reports from customers, I >> integrated a mainstream 3rd party crash reporter library (PLCrashReporter). >> I collect crashes of our daemon, and send them for analysis, and all is >> well. >> >> However, when crash happens, the user can still see a line in the Console >> “All Messages” section, and also see the full crash-report in the “System >> Diagnostic Reports”. I would want to avoid this, and disable this >> crash-reporting that is unusable to me, and exposes private info about my >> program (I’m writing a security tool). >> >> I could not find any process-specific behavior of CrashReporter. The only >> thing I could find is how to stop the crash-reporter altogether from >> collecting crashes. (see man ReportCrash) - and of course I don’t want this. >> >> Is it possible at all to stop CrashReporter from collecting just MY crashes? >> how? Is there a runtime API (xpc or other) to control CrashReporter >> behavior? Any filtering mechanism? > > This isn’t really a Cocoa question (you might be better off with the Darwin > list), but AFAIK CrashReporter works by connecting to your program’s Mach > exception port. Since you’re using it, I’ll note that PLCrashReporter can be > set to take over the exception port, but if you look in > mach_exception_callback() it forwards crash reports to previously registered > handlers, which you probably don’t want.
You can prevent Crash Reporter from generating crash reports for your process by handling all signals that would normally terminate the process and call _exit() from the handler. You can also set the Mach exception ports to MACH_PORT_NULL. See: <http://lackingrhoticity.blogspot.com/2013/08/handling-crashes-on-mac-os-x.html> <https://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2009/Sep/msg01640.html> Regards, Ken _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
