Re: [boost] [threads] Exception handling change on Windows?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-14 09:40:47

Henrik Sundberg wrote:
> 2007/11/13, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]>:
>> Starting right about the time of the revision 41056 threads changes, the
>> Windows smoke tests started to pop up dialog boxes (rather than just
>> failing quietly) for various threads problems. bjam had not been
>> recompiled, and there was nothing else running on the machine at the time.
>>
>> Is this a threads problem, or did something go haywire on my machine?
> 
> The error handling is changed in VC8, see: http://blog.kalmbachnet.de/?postid=75
> 
> When we started using VC8 SP1, we had to add a background process
> looking for error dialogs and automatically closing them (otherwise
> the failing processes just hangs, and our redundancy mechanisms could
> not do a ting).
> 
> The change in VS SP1 was really bad for us.

I wondered if something like that had happened, but since I applied SP1 
a long time ago, don't understand why it would just now start to happen.

Thanks for the link,

--Beman