[fpc-pascal] "Interesting" hang with daemonapp under windows

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Luca Olivetti wrote:

> While I was trying to debug an unrelated problem with a service (written  with
> daemonapp/lazdaemon), debugging that consisted in constantly rebooting the
> system to see the behaviour of my service at system startup, suddenly the
> service wasn't starting anymore, and, as always, windows tools to see where
> the problem is were less than useless.
> 
> After a painful and long session of trial and error, I discovered that for
> whatever reason the system logger wasn't working (hey, this is windows after
> all), so trying to use the logger was hanging the program.
> Clearing the log solved the problem (this time), but I'm wondering if
> daemonapp shouldn't try to catch (and ignore?) the possible exceptions thrown
> by TEventLog.

This is a known problem, which is on my todo list since a couple of years.
I wanted to add a property 'IgnoreErrors' to TEventLog.

Can you enter a bug report about it in mantis? You can assign it to me, if you want.

Michael.