[Python-3000] buildbots

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Aug 30 00:15:53 CEST 2007


>>> These messageboxes of course hang the tests on the windows build servers,
>>> so probably it would be good if they could be disabled completely.
>> I think this will be very difficult to achieve.
> 
> Could the tests be run beneath a shim process that used SetErrorMode()
> to disable all the OS-based process failure dialog boxes?

I did not know about that - it may help.

> If I
> remember correctly the error mode is inherited, so an independent
> small exec module could reset the mode, and execute the normal test
> sequence as a child process.

It would also be possible to put that into the interpreter itself,
at least when running in debug mode.

What does

"Instead, the system sends the error to the calling process."

mean?

Regards,
Martin


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