Re: [boost] build_monitor.exe: a cure worse than the disease

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-01 15:56:50

On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 13:13:38 -0700, Victor A. Wagner Jr. wrote
> 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.

Might I suggest removing the teststreams test from the date-time Jamfile that
is stopping everything?  From my perspective we've already established that
there is some sort of bug in the vc8 beta causing that one...

Jeff