On Mar 30, 2011 6:48 AM, "Ilie Halip" <lupuroshu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey.
>
> You're right, I haven't thought about generating a .dmp file manually, I
> guess I just took MiniDumpWriteDump for granted. A quick search for the
> Windows dump file format doesn't reveal much... There's also the issue with
> symbol files (probably also not well documented), which are needed to get
> the stack trace.
>
> Hm, this raises many issues... I'll try to talk to Timo when I see him
> online. Thanks for the heads-up.
>
> IH.
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Ged Murphy <gedmurphy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ilie,
>>
>>
>>
>> I agree that the WER would be useful.
>>
>> My main concern with this is that in order to do it correctly (meaning as
>> per Microsoft), we would need a server setting up to consume the error
>> reports.
>>
>> I realise that there is much more to WER than reporting crashes back to
>> Microsoft, but if we start to dig into what features are available, you’ll
>> realise that it’s a huge area.
>>
>>
>>
>> One thing what needs addressing are usermode dumps. How do we do this?
>> Ideally we’d like to output dumps in the same format as Windows does (dmp),
>> but I’m not sure if anyone has the knowledge of the layout of these files.
>>
>>
>>
>> If you are keen on this as a project though, I suggest you speak to Timo in
>> IRC. Although he’s not a mentor, he has more experience than most in raising
>> and catching exceptions and may be able to help guide you.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> As for the timescale, 30 hours per week is more than enough time to be
>> spending on a GSoC project.
>>
>> Your time is entirely managed by you anyway, you just need to strive to
>> complete before the deadline.
>>
>>
>>
>> I wish you luck in whatever you choose.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ged Murphy.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] *On
>> Behalf Of *Ilie Halip
>> *Sent:* 29 March 2011 08:46
>>
>> *To:* ros-dev@reactos.org
>> *Subject:* [ros-dev] GSoC 2011 idea
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>>
>> My name is Ilie Halip, and I'm a student at the Faculty of Computer
>> Science, in Iasi, Romania. I'd like to take part in this year's Google
>> Summer of Code, and I was browsing the ideas page earlier.
>>
>> What caught my eye was the Management Console, but after some discussions
>> on IRC, I got very excited about another thing not listed on the wiki page
>> for GSoC. It's about implementing support for Windows Error Reporting. It's
>> listed at http://reactos.org/wiki/Missing_ReactOS_Functionality. I think
>> it's doable in less than 3 months, and might prove to be helpful too (the
>> wiki page sais that :P). I'm not sure if you would accept this kind of
>> proposal, so I'm here to ask about that. Also, I would need a mentor to help
>> me with this project - so... would anyone be willing to mentor me, if this
>> project would be accepted? I was also looking at WMI, but I know it's huge,
>> and I'm not sure how much of it would be required to consider such a project
>> successful.
>>
>> Also, another thing I should mention. I do have a full time job right now.
>> That's a reason I didn't dive into anything bigger listed on the ideas page.
>> Even though I do have some experience writing Windows drivers (I wrote a
>> file system filter driver 2 years back), I don't think I'd be able to write
>> an Intel HDA driver in less than 3 months. But I talked to my superiors, and
>> they are willing to let me work part-time during GSoC, so I should be able
>> to work for my would-be project about 30 hours/week. Do you think that's
>> enough?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ilie.
>>
>>
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