Ghostty links sentry-native with the breakpad backend on every platform
(SharedDeps.zig), so it writes minidumps on macOS and Windows as well.
- macOS: a Mach exception port handler thread (structured like
Breakpad's exception_handler) catches EXC_BAD_ACCESS/BAD_INSTRUCTION/
ARITHMETIC/BREAKPOINT, suspends other threads, reads the crashed
thread state and writes a minidump via minidump-writer as the
event.minidump attachment, then restores the previous ports so the
BSD signal and default termination follow. The signal path remains
the fallback (and handles SIGABRT); a watchdog alarm bounds dumping.
- Windows: SetUnhandledExceptionFilter hands off to a pre-started dump
thread using minidump-writer's dump_crash_context.
- The screen-file open action decodes the escaped path to raw OS bytes
(also for the C action passed to embedders).
macOS/Windows code is compile-checked (clippy -D warnings) only; the
shared Mach message decoding and minidump attachment logic have Linux
unit tests. Platform matrix in docs/rewrite/notes/crash-CR.md.
Test Plan:
- cargo test --workspace (3348 passed)
- just check-macos; just check-macos x86_64-apple-darwin; just check-windows
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