On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:06:16 +0100, Johan Nilsson
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You can define BOOST_TEST_IGNORE_NON_ZERO_CHILD_CODE or BOOST_TEST_IGNORE_SIGCHLD for Boost.Test which as far as I remember must be rebuilt then. :-/
Thanks for the pointer. I was hoping for a provided run-time solution, which would have been the best.
Yes, I agree.
If stuck with a compile-time solution, it would IMHO have been more lenient having to define e.g. BOOST_TEST_HANDLE_NON_ZERO_CHILD_CODE and BOOST_TEST_HANDLE_SIGCHLD rather than having this new behaviour by default. I really can't currently imagine a scenario where I would want this enabled.
It's the execution monitor in file /boost/test/impl/execution_monitor.ipp which registers the signal handlers. The execution monitor has a public property called p_catch_system_errors which (according to http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/libs/test/doc/html/execution-monitor/us...) can be set to false to suppress registering any signal handler. It's all or nothing but there seems to be a way. Boris