TBR: Adding petkov's patch committed today in other repo
diff --git a/crash_reporter/crash_reporter.cc b/crash_reporter/crash_reporter.cc
index 951d3fa..e283322 100644
--- a/crash_reporter/crash_reporter.cc
+++ b/crash_reporter/crash_reporter.cc
@@ -77,6 +77,18 @@
s_metrics_lib.SendEnumToUMA(std::string(kCrashCounterHistogram),
CRASH_KIND_USER,
CRASH_KIND_MAX);
+
+ // Announce through D-Bus whenever a user crash happens. This is
+ // used by the metrics daemon to log active use time between
+ // crashes.
+ //
+ // This could be done more efficiently by explicit fork/exec or
+ // using a dbus library directly. However, this should run
+ // relatively rarely and longer term we may need to implement a
+ // better way to do this that doesn't rely on D-Bus.
+ int status __attribute__((unused)) =
+ system("/usr/bin/dbus-send --type=signal --system / "
+ "org.chromium.CrashReporter.UserCrash");
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {