How to catch exe crashes from command line

Question

Hello

I'm doing batch-testing on our win32 c++ programs. Some of them crash. What's the best way to catch those crash from the command line and report it?

thanks

edit: answer:

1) you can't catch another process's exception from batch / command line

2) example to do it right in c#:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/673036/how-to-handle-a-crash-in-a-process-launched-via-system-diagnostics-process

Answer 1

Maybe checking their return value in your script ? Of course, they have to adhere to a standard (for instance, in a unix-like os 0 = success, all else = error).

EDIT: also look here

Answer 2

there are two ways to catch, 1. Have a monitoring exe running as service or process. 2. Or implement crash class in windows may be usefull

Answer 3

from my own edit ;)

1) you can't catch another process's exception from batch / command line

2) example to do it right in c#:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/673036/how-to-handle-a-crash-in-a-process-launched-via-system-diagnostics-process

Answer 4

There is a way of catching exceptions and crashes from the command line: use ADPlus in crash mode and it will sit in the background listening for unhandled exceptions.

See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2694701/win32-is-there-a-difference-between-dr-watsons-full-mini-dumps-and-writing-my/2694863#2694863