It was first introduced in 19e0ce2c03
In Nix we only register the crash handler in main instead of initNix,
because library user may want to use their own crash handler.
Sample output:
Mar 12 08:38:06 eve nix[2303762]: Nix crashed. This is a bug. Please report this at https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues with the following information included:
Mar 12 08:38:06 eve nix[2303762]: Exception: nix::SysError: error: writing to file: Resource temporarily unavailable
Mar 12 08:38:06 eve nix[2303762]: Stack trace:
Mar 12 08:38:06 eve nix[2303762]: 0# 0x000000000076876A in nix
1# 0x00007FDA40E9F20A in /nix/store/2lhklm5aizx30qbw49acnrrzkj9lbmij-gcc-14-20241116-lib/lib/libstdc++.so.6
2# std::unexpected() in /nix/store/2lhklm5aizx30qbw49acnrrzkj9lbmij-gcc-14-20241116-lib/lib/libstdc++.so.6
3# 0x00007FDA40E9F487 in /nix/store/2lhklm5aizx30qbw49acnrrzkj9lbmij-gcc-14-20241116-lib/lib/libstdc++.so.6
4# nix::writeFull(int, std::basic_string_view<char, std::char_traits<char> >, bool) in /home/joerg/git/nix/inst/lib/libnixutil.so
5# nix::writeLine(int, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >) in /home/joerg/git/nix/inst/lib/libnixutil.so
6# nix::JSONLogger::write(nlohmann::json_abi_v3_11_3::basic_json<std::map, std::vector, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, bool, long, unsigned long, double, std::allocator, nlohmann::json_abi_v3_11_3::adl_serializer, std::vector<unsigned char, std::allocator<unsigned char> >, void> const&) in /home/joerg/git/nix/inst/lib/libnixutil.so
7# nix::JSONLogger::logEI(nix::ErrorInfo const&) in /home/joerg/git/nix/inst/lib/libnixutil.so
8# nix::Logger::logEI(nix::Verbosity, nix::ErrorInfo) in nix
9# nix::handleExceptions(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, std::function<void ()>) in /home/joerg/git/nix/inst/lib/libnixmain.so
10# 0x000000000087A563 in nix
11# 0x00007FDA40BD41FE in /nix/store/6q2mknq81cyscjmkv72fpcsvan56qhmg-glibc-2.40-66/lib/libc.so.6
12# __libc_start_main in /nix/store/6q2mknq81cyscjmkv72fpcsvan56qhmg-glibc-2.40-66/lib/libc.so.6
13# 0x00000000006F4DF5 in nix
Co-authored-by: eldritch horrors <pennae@lix.systems>
(cherry picked from commit 163f94412a)
045cff79b2