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Undocumented error 1450 from CreateProcess

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David Whitney

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Jan 9, 1996, 3:00:00 AM1/9/96
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John Timms <tim...@vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

>Can anyone shed any light on error 1450 (decimal) that I
>get intermittently from CreateProcess on Windows NT Server 3.51
>on an Intel machine? I can't find it documented anywhere.

>Thanks in advance,
>John Timms (MQSeries System Test).

John:

Any chance this is from a process running as a service? The error code
you specified is not in the list of error codes returned by the Win32
GetLastError() function, but it would be at the end of a series of
errors in the 1440-1449 range that deal with window problems, i.e.
ERROR_INVALID_SCROLLBAR_RANGE,ERROR_INVALID_SHOWWIN_COMMAND.

The reason I'm speculating about the service issue is that if it is a
process, and the process is failing such that interaction with the
desktop is presumed to be available (which it isn't), it *might* be
failing because there's no window with which to communicate.

Just a thought...

David Whitney
intr...@ionet.net

John Timms

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Jan 9, 1996, 3:00:00 AM1/9/96
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John Timms

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Jan 10, 1996, 3:00:00 AM1/10/96
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David Whitney wrote:
> John:
>
> Any chance this is from a process running as a service? The error code
> you specified is not in the list of error codes returned by the Win32
> GetLastError() function, but it would be at the end of a series of
> errors in the 1440-1449 range that deal with window problems, i.e.
> ERROR_INVALID_SCROLLBAR_RANGE,ERROR_INVALID_SHOWWIN_COMMAND.
>
> The reason I'm speculating about the service issue is that if it is a
> process, and the process is failing such that interaction with the
> desktop is presumed to be available (which it isn't), it *might* be
> failing because there's no window with which to communicate.
>
> Just a thought...
>
> David Whitney
> intr...@ionet.net

David,

Thanks for the tip. In fact I have discovered (by looking in the header
file from the latest Visual C++ V4 product) that 1450 is in fact
ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES. Now all I have to do is to figure out just
WHICH resource I've run out of! There are no helpful entries in the
event log. Can anyone suggest how I found out what's causing the
problem?

Thanks again,

Nick Mason

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Jan 10, 1996, 3:00:00 AM1/10/96
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In Article: 84568 of comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc John Timms
<tim...@vnet.ibm.com> said:

Is your executable by any chance on a network drive? Does it use DLL's
that are on network drives or any network resources. If so, bingo!
You've hit the dreaded "how do I show the network to a background
process?" conundrum.

There is something in the registry to allocate this and other exciting
resource types but it's not documented anywhere and if you find out
>>please<< let us know!

Good Luck!


N R Mason, Baden, Switzerland.

John Timms

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Jan 11, 1996, 3:00:00 AM1/11/96
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Nick,

Nope - all my code is on local drives - no networking involved.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Pauwl Lunow

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Jan 11, 1996, 3:00:00 AM1/11/96
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John,

could it have something to do with your paging file that can't grow to
the size you specify that it's allowed to grow to??
Check these settings.

Cheers,
Pauwl


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