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Re: [patch] recognise when an exec()d process terminates due to unhandled exception
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 08:09:06PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 01:48:15PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>After poking at this a little, I think it would be better to issue a
>>>linux-like error message.
>>>
>>>In my sandbox, I now have this:
>>>
>>>bash-3.2$ ./libtest /cygdrive/s/test/libtest.exe: error while loading
>>>shared libraries: liba.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such
>>>file or directory
>>>
>>>I haven't done the work to report on missing symbols yet but I think
>>>that's a much less common error condition.
>>
>>Excellent. The wording isn't really that important to me. But I think
>>what is important is that we don't allow the situation where something
>>was unable to start and we are totally silent. That leads to confusion
>>because people start to try to debug or blame the program being run
>>when in fact the program never saw the light of day in the first place.
>>It's totally baffling when it happens and you're not aware to look for
>>it. So even if we can't give the name of the symbol in the case of a
>>missing import, I think it's still important to say something.
>
>Yes. I really have been meaning to fix this for a long time. It's my
>fault that cygwin has this bug. I appreciate your point the way to
ing
>how this could be solved.
cgf