Luigi Auriemma

Hi aluigi,

I have a program written in C++ for Windows, that is responsible for starting other programs (game servers).

Sometimes these servers crash and terminate, this is just something that happens with game servers and its not too abnormal.

However, I would find it useful if there was a way I could see *why* a server crashed.

Given I am starting the process (via OpenProcess API), am I able to record debug/minidump information for when a process crashes?

I have some C++ code that I have researched and put together that can write a small minidump (using the MiniDumpWriteDump API function), as well as try and write the exception code (eg, access violation) by attaching itself as a debugger and catching exceptions, but the information is not very useful (I suppose because I don't have the programs debug symbols).

Can you think of anything I could be doing to gather useful information that may hint at the reason for a process crashing; or is it not worth it because I'd never have the debug symbols available to analyse the problem myself?

Cheers,
Andrew

uhmmm this is a thing I have never tried so I can't give a good or complete answer.

I have spent some minutes taking a look at this thing of MiniDumpWriteDump and the attached code is a basic example I have written (it's only an example!)

at the moment I don't more than this, sorry

Thanks for the help!