Basically the VM periodically 'touches' the file to let the wrapper know that it is still alive. If the wrapper does not detect a change to the mod time of the file at the specified interval it assumes the worst and aborts the job.
Requested by CMS.
This was a hold over from the Win9x days when a console application window could not be hidden by the processed that launched it. Since we no longer need to support Win9x we can get rid of this hack.
This was a hold over from the Win9x days when a console application window could not be hidden by the processed that launched it. Since we no longer need to support Win9x we can get rid of this hack.
This was a hold over from the Win9x days when a console application window could not be hidden by the processed that launched it. Since we no longer need to support Win9x we can get rid of this hack.
This was a hold over from the Win9x days when a console application window could not be hidden by the processed that launched it. Since we no longer need to support Win9x we can get rid of this hack.
This was a hold over from the Win9x days when a console application window could not be hidden by the processed that launched it. Since we no longer need to support Win9x we can get rid of this hack.
This was a hold over from the Win9x days when a console application window could not be hidden by the processed that launched it. Since we no longer need to support Win9x we can get rid of this hack.
NOTE: At some point parameter parsing and processing the job file was moved ahead of the diagnostics initialization code. This had the unfortunate consequence of making errors that happened before the diagnostics code initialized disappear.
Switching wrapper to a console application will mean that launching it from a console window will cause the console window to block and display anything written to stderr/stdout regardless of whether the diagnostics code is initialized.
This was a hold over from the Win9x days when a console application window could not be hidden by the processed that launched it. Since we no longer need to support Win9x we can get rid of this hack.
Something has changed on OS X that prevents /usr/local/bin from being in the default search path. It is when launched from a terminal window, but not when BOINC launches vboxwrapper. I think recent versions of VirtualBox changed where it stores VboxManage on install. bbad0d9d recently addressed this in the CC.
Rom Walton