Victor A. Wagner Jr. wrote in news:6.1.2.0.2.20040801130827.05d83938@mail.rudbek.com in gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel:
I have NO idea what criteria build_monitor uses to killing processes, but when I awoke this morning, it had managed to kill: the dnet "run in the background" ORG process, Pirch (my IRC client), a proxy that lets me get dcc's through my hardware firewall, Trillian (the instant message program), SpyBot resident..... I think you get the picture. this thing just walked through my system like a hoard of Vandals (or was it Visigoths). whatever
DO NO RUN THIS PROGRAM ON YOUR SYSTEM UNTIL IT'S FIXED
my results will be delayed as a result of my stopping the -monitored tests because I'll have to manually click through the modal dialogs (may their creator roast in hell) so the tests will finish.
Their creator did at least write a manual :). <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en- us/debug/base/seterrormode.asp> http://tinyurl.com/4sq3j The real problem is we write command line programms for *nix and then expect them to work just the same in windows. Driver programme: #include <cstdlib> #include <windows.h> int main() { UINT previous = SetErrorMode( SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX ); std::system( "segfault.exe" ); SetErrorMode( previous ); } segfault.exe: #include <iostream> int main() { int p = 0; // int *p = 0; std::cout << "segfault\n"; std::cout.flush(); return 1 / p; // return *p; } Assuming bjam doesn't call SetErrorMode( 0 ) itself, then as the error mode is "inherited" you shouldn't get any more popups. I suggest rewriting the "Driver" programme above to invoke bjam or whatever it is that invokes bjam. If a python version is more convenient: import sys, os _nowin32api = True if sys.platform[ : 3 ] == 'win': SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX = 0x0002 try: import win32api _nowin32api = False class _error_mode( object ): def __init__( self ): self.mode = win32api.SetErrorMode( SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX ) def restore( self ): win32api.SetErrorMode( self.mode ) pass except ImportError: print >> sys.stderr, "Warning win32 and no win32api (beware popups)" if _nowin32api: class _error_mode( object ): def restore( self ): pass pass def open_command( cmd, open = os.system ): """ does: wrapper for os.system, avoid's popups on win32 """ try: emode = _error_mode() result = open( cmd ) finally: emode.restore() return result if __name__ == '__main__': open_command( 'segfault.exe' ) print 'Ok' win32api is here: http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/Downloads.html Rob. -- http://www.victim-prime.dsl.pipex.com/