RE: [boost] build_monitor.exe: a cure worse than the disease
Victor A. Wagner Jr. writes:
I have NO idea what criteria build_monitor uses to killing processes,
Two conditions: 1) They have to be spawned by 'bjam.exe' executable. 2) They have to be running for more than 5 minutes or show an error dialog window.
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.
How did you determine that it's build_monitor that caused all that? While there is always a possibility of a program having bugs, it's hard to believe that this particular one started to misbehave all of a sudden after a year of stable work and no changes to the source code.
this thing just walked through my system like a hoard of Vandals (or was it Visigoths). whatever
I'm sorry to hear about the whole thing, but let's get to the roots of it. First of all, why do you think it was build_monitor? Second, what operating system are you running? -- Aleksey Gurtovoy MetaCommunications Engineering
Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
1) They have to be spawned by 'bjam.exe' executable. 2) They have to be running for more than 5 minutes or show an error dialog window.
On my computer it's killing every window with word "error" in the title. No matter what's the parent, and no matter if window has been open for 10 seconds or 5 minutes. Just try to open few windows while tests are running, like: C:>start "Some error" cmd.exe BTW: I'm not working as an administrator. B.
Bronek Kozicki writes:
Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
1) They have to be spawned by 'bjam.exe' executable. 2) They have to be running for more than 5 minutes or show an error dialog window.
On my computer it's killing every window with word "error" in the title. No matter what's the parent, and no matter if window has been open for 10 seconds or 5 minutes.
It should respect the parent, but the timeout indeed doesn't apply -- that's the whole point of scanning for error dialogs in addition to monitoring the run time. We'll look into this. -- Aleksey Gurtovoy MetaCommunications Engineering
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