Previously, StartHandler() launched the handler process, then connected
over a pipe to register for crash handling. Instead, the initial client
can create and inherit handles to the handler and pass those handle
values and other data (addresses, etc.) on the command line.
This should improve startup time as there's no need to synchronize with
the process at startup, and allows avoiding a call to CreateProcess()
directly in StartHandler(), which is important for registration for
crash reporting from DllMain().
Incidentally adds new utility functions for string/number conversion and
string splitting.
Note: API change; UseHandler() is removed for all platforms.
BUG=chromium:567850,chromium:656800
Change-Id: I1602724183cb107f805f109674c53e95841b24fd
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/400015
Reviewed-by: Mark Mentovai <mark@chromium.org>
I considered writing the CodeView records to the minidump, but I didn't
find a ton of docs and debugging is only lightly supported (e.g.
http://www.debuginfo.com/articles/gendebuginfo.html#debuggersandformats
and it doesn't attempt to load at all on more recent Visual Studios).
As we won't be generating symbols in this format, and we don't expect to
have symbols for any weird modules that get injected into us in the
wild, it seems like we don't lose anything by just ignoring them.
R=mark@chromium.org
BUG=crashpad:47
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/1430773003 .
