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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: SetErrorMode (SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS) not working on Vista?
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On Apr 26 10:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 25 18:08, cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm wrote:
> > So I understand why there are (multiples of) six failures each -- these 
> > relinked versions in the old test suite (and the occurances in the new test 
> > suite) are expected to fail with either dll-not-found or missing-symbol 
> > errors.  But Cygwin calls
> >   SetErrorMode (SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS)
> > so I don't understand why I'm getting the popups at all.
> >
> > I do /not/ see these popups on WinXPsp2 (cygwin-1.5.25-12)
> 
> I can reproduce that.  I even patched the Cygwin DLL locally so that
> SetErrorMode (SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS) is called *again*, right before
> calling CreateProcess, but the box still pops up on Vista (well, 2K8
> in my test, actually).  Looks like a bug or "feature" in Vista/2K8.
> I'll investigate further.

FYI: http://tinyurl.com/4xu9y4


Corinna

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