Re: enhancing Force Quit or improving user-driven diagnostics

Kyle Sluder <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:36:52 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.macosx.devel
Message-ID <CANEs-cymbKseWTikZMTbcFdXffQngMWXzAu8QcSozRVtw2jbaQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:32 AM, John Hawkinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Kyle:
>> man SubmitDiagInfo(1) describes how Apple takes care of crash reports:
>> ReportCrash(1) is automatically invoked by launchd when it detects a
>> program has crashed. That generates a crash report in the user's
>
> I think you've misunderstood. Force Quit doesn't invoke SubmitDiagInfo
> or ReportCrash, so no crash report is collected. It just terminates
> the process without diagnostics.

Huh. For some reason I thought it always put up the "You have forced
this app to quit" dialog. But I guess it only does that if the app is
unresponsive.

Carry on, then! :)

--Kyle Sluder