MS error

[Richard Kreiss]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:33 PM
> To: rkreiss at gccconsulting.net
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: MS error
> 
> On 1/21/2010 4:56 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> > One of my clients is getting the following error message
> >
> > Exception error -1073741819 in process failed 0(0x00000000)
> > comspec="(null)"
> > command="F:\fp56\fp\rreport transaction -f approvals -v sel_process -a
-iK
> > -u
> [...]
> > Question; does anyone know what this exception refers to?
> 
> It's 0xc0000005 (STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION), which Microsoft describes
> as
> "Reading or writing to an inaccessible memory location".  I believe it's
> similar to a Unix "segmentation violation".
> 
> Note that rreport did _not_ continue running after you pressed Enter, as
> rreport had already exited when the error was displayed.

Ken,

My client has told me that the process continues after this error appears
and is not at the end.

This is a process which is processing credit card charges. Anywhere from 100
to 500 charges at a time.  The program is writing out an html file, calling
an outside program to transmit the file, and then reading back in the
result.  The resulting information is then is hashed and applied to the
current record, a detailed payment record is created, if the transaction has
been approved, and the sales journal is updated.

I have to believe my client when they tell me the approval process
continues.  The only thing that has not happened is the updates for the
current transaction.  I think that the error may have occurred when posting
to the sales journal as this was the only lookup I failed to protect.  I
have since changed the code and will have to wait to see if this error
occurs again.

Richard