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Detecting a crash

Started by Maega Apr 26, 2004 at 4:54 PM 3 replies 300+ views

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Apr 26, 2004 at 4:54 PM

I have an app that crashes on occasion (it''s a server.. and it''s not mine.. so I can''t fix the crash). I want to be able to detect when it crashes and just restart the server app. How would I do this?

elis-cool

Apr 26, 2004 at 5:05 PM

look into the CRT signal functions, basicly, you give it a pointer to a function that it calls when there is an access violation and the like instead of doing the default messagebox and aborting the app.

Maega

Apr 26, 2004 at 8:32 PM

If this needs to be in the server app, it can''t be done. Does this work globally or what?

krez

Apr 26, 2004 at 9:16 PM

you could write a program that checks periodically (every second? every fifteen seconds? every five minutes?) if that server app is running, and if not start it up.

antareus

Apr 26, 2004 at 11:21 PM

krez, the Tribes 1 server actually ships with a program that does that very thing called InfiniteSpawn. The spawn program would create the process and then wait for it to exit, at which point it would start it again. No need to poll for it.

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