X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.mailhop.org/outbound/abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: postmaster@innobec.com Message-ID: <44F5AC54.4000001@innobec.com> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:18:44 -0400 From: Pierre Baillargeon User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: no message or dialog when a DLL is missing References: <44ECC152.3020503@innobec.com> <44EDA26C.6000603@innobec.com> <44EDF86F.6030107@innobec.com> <44EEF080.1020407@innobec.com> In-Reply-To: <44EEF080.1020407@innobec.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Do-Not-Run: IfYouSaySo X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.62.162 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: pbaillargeon@innobec.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on rodriguez); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com I've identified the reason why DLL don't show up: in the startup code (winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc), in dll_crt0_0(), Win32's SetErrorMode() is called to suppress all OS error dialogs. It's there since 1998 according to the changelog, so it must not bother many people... I guess it would be ugly to add error messages for missing DLLs all the way up from the low-level spawn/exec/etc. And in it's usual nice design practice, SetErrorMode() is a global setting affecting all threads in the process, so changing it temporarily in the spawn()/exec() function could be bad. -- Pierre Baillargeon Innobec -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/