From: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 16:37:13 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: #11732: make suppress_crash_popup() work on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
X-Git-Tag: v3.3.1rc1~83
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e846342f8ada25055fe1b9bcec407fe82e2c3f8e;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

#11732: make suppress_crash_popup() work on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/support.py b/Lib/test/support.py
index ba1206cbb45b..19989acf6189 100644
--- a/Lib/test/support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/support.py
@@ -1911,10 +1911,12 @@ if sys.platform.startswith('win'):
     def suppress_crash_popup():
         """Disable Windows Error Reporting dialogs using SetErrorMode."""
         # see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms680621%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
+        # GetErrorMode is not available on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003,
+        # but SetErrorMode returns the previous value, so we can use that
         import ctypes
         k32 = ctypes.windll.kernel32
-        old_error_mode = k32.GetErrorMode()
         SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX = 0x02
+        old_error_mode = k32.SetErrorMode(SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX)
         k32.SetErrorMode(old_error_mode | SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX)
         try:
             yield