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fix(native): use app .run for crash daemon - #1976

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Have the native crash daemon adopt the application's existing .run instead of creating a second unrelated .run, and store daemon logs, minidumps, crash envelopes, and signal-handler scratch files within that .run.

Before this change, every native crash daemon run left its log in the top-level database directory, while every generated minidump remained there after its crash. Neither files were in .run directories, so old-run processing never removed them, so logs accumulated per daemon run and minidumps per qualifying crash.

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The daemon's unconditional retention of generated minidumps predates PR #1607 and is now redundant. With cache_keep configured, the cache/ directory retains each minidump as a separate .dmp alongside its .envelope, subject to configured cache limits. This provides the same direct debugger access without leaving raw minidumps in the database root indefinitely.

Protect daemon-owned work with a dedicated .run.daemon.lock so old-run processing waits for completion. Keep retry cache and external storage database-global, and leave crashed runs for normal next-launch cleanup.

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Making the native daemon play by the normal .run rules is also a pre-requisite for implementing on_crashed_last_run in a clean way, hooked into the shared "process old runs" mechanism used by all backends:

@jpnurmi jpnurmi changed the title ref(native): use .run for crash daemon ref(native): use app .run for crash daemon Aug 12, 2026
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Have the native crash daemon adopt the application's existing .run
instead of creating a second unrelated .run, and store daemon logs,
minidumps, crash envelopes, and signal-handler scratch files within
that .run.

Protect daemon-owned work with a dedicated `.run.daemon.lock` so
old-run processing waits for completion. Keep retry cache and external
storage database-global, and leave crashed runs for normal next-launch
cleanup.
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sentry_value_decref(crash_event);
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// Send all other envelopes from run folder (logs, etc.) before cleanup

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👆 The other envelopes are now already processed earlier by the sentry__process_run_envelope call above. Such an extra envelope is already covered by test_native_session_tracking.

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sentry-native 0.16.4

Created-by: HarmonybrewBot
Commit-by: HarmonybrewBot
Merged-by: HarmonybrewBot
Description: Created by `brew bump`

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Created with `brew bump-formula-pr`.

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<details>
  <summary>release notes</summary>
  <pre>**Features**:

- Windows: report WINE and Proton metadata in a separate runtime context. ([#1995](getsentry/sentry-native#1995))
- Add a public custom HTTP transport client interface (`sentry_http_transport_new`) so applications can plug in their own HTTP client (e.g. platform-native ones) while sentry-native continues to own request queueing, retry/backoff, offline caching, rate-limiting, and client reports. The built-in curl and WinHTTP transports are now implemented against this same interface. ([#1987](getsentry/sentry-native#1987))
- Native/Windows: capture WER report ID and expose as `contexts.wer.report_id` in crash events when the WER integration is enabled. ([#1970](getsentry/sentry-native#1970))
- Add `sentry_set_tags` and `sentry_scope_set_tags` for updating multiple tags with a single scope flush, improving bulk-update performance. ([#1993](getsentry/sentry-native#1993))
- Add `on_crashed_last_run` callback for inspecting crash envelopes from previous runs. ([#1985](getsentry/sentry-native#1985))
- Add `sentry_get_last_event_id` and `sentry_scope_get_last_event_id` for retrieving the last event ID captured with the global or given scope, respectively. ([#1992](getsentry/sentry-native#1992))
- Native/Unix: The native crash daemon now loads `libcurl` dynamically at runtime by default when `SENTRY_LINK_CURL=AUTO`, avoiding `libcurl` linker work during process startup and significantly speeding up startup time. Explicitly set `SENTRY_LINK_CURL=ON` to link it directly. ([#1955](getsentry/sentry-native#1955))
- Add missing public scope mutators: `set_release`, `set_environment`, `set_transaction`, `remove_tag`, `remove_extra`, `remove_context`, and `remove_attachment`. ([#2011](getsentry/sentry-native#2011))

**Deprecations**:

- Deprecate `sentry_options_get/set_enable_logs` and `sentry_options_get/set_enable_metrics`. ([#2000](getsentry/sentry-native#2000))

**Fixes**:

- Native: store daemon logs, minidumps, crash envelopes, and scratch files in `.run` directories so they are cleaned up with the run instead of accumulating in the database root. Minidumps can still be retained with `cache_keep`, which stores `.dmp` sidecars alongside cached envelopes. ([#1976](getsentry/sentry-native#1976))
- Linux/ARM32: prevent recursive crashes when libunwind receives an unmapped initial instruction pointer during crash handling. ([#1977](getsentry/sentry-native#1977))
- Improve log and metric delivery when telemetry is captured faster than envelopes can be serialized by offloading serialization to an internal thread pool. ([#1946](getsentry/sentry-native#1946))
- Wine: fix OS version detection and cross-compiling Windows builds from Linux. ([#2001](getsentry/sentry-native#2001))
- Destroy condition variables as approriate when no longer needed. ([#2004](getsentry/sentry-native#2004))
- Crashpad/Windows: preserve module CodeView UUIDs for minimal PDB70 records with empty PDB filenames. ([#2003](getsentry/sentry-native#2003))
- Native/Windows: improve crash-processing performance for applications with many threads. ([#2018](getsentry/sentry-native#2018))
- Prevent a race between SDK reinitialization and cleanup of the previous curl client when libcurl is linked directly. ([#2015](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-native/pull/2015))</pre>
  <p>View the full release notes at <a href="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/getsentry/sentry-native/releases/tag/0.16.4">https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-native/releases/tag/0.16.4</a>.</p>
</details>
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See merge request: Harmonybrew/homebrew-core!17725
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