[Therion] New development software issue

[Martin Sluka]

38 years old skeleton in a closet still scares?

M. 

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18. 12. 2019 v 13:00, Tarquin Wilton-Jones via Therion <therion at speleo.sk>:

>>>> ERROR: Can not execute "command.com /c "C:\\Program Files\\Therion\\therion.exe" -x cave.th
>>> 
>>> The code in xtherion/global.tcl tries to run cmd.exe first and if that 
>>> fails it assumes command.com:
>> 
>> I had guessed this was the approach it might use.
>> 
>> But this would not explain why commit 802ad7c worked correctly, but
>> 19eb624 failed.
> 
> Found the cause! This is a problem that will randomly affect other
> users, so it would be nice if there was a proper solution within Therion.
> 
> The computer has "Segurazo real-time protection" installed, but this
> issue could probably show up with other Anti-Virus engines too. When you
> ask Therion to compile, it tries to load cmd.exe. Segurazo intercepts,
> and tries to scan cmd.exe. This randomly completes in time (which is why
> we thought it worked in one version and not another). If it takes too
> long, Therion thinks that it was denied access, so it tries command.com
> instead, and fails because Windows 10 has cmd.exe
> 
> We could work around it by hitting F9 twice, really quickly (so it ran
> the second one while the AV was still scanning it from the first time).
> 
> This is all Segurazo's fault, so we uninstalled it. But surely if one AV
> engine does it, then so will others. It would be nice if Therion was a
> little more patient, and allowed AVs the time to complete, before
> deciding that it needed to use "command.com" instead.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tarquin
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