Article ID: 156484
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0
This article was previously published under Q156484
SYMPTOMS
Cmd.exe, Perl.exe, or other console-mode applications may fail to initialize properly and terminate prematurely when launched by a service using the CreateProcess() or CreateProcessAsUser() APIs. The calling process has no way of knowing that the launched console-mode application has terminated prematurely.
In some instances, calling GetExitCode() against the failed process indicates the following exit code:
In multithreaded applications, the premature termination causes desktop heap leaks. Over time the desktop heap is exhausted, which results in User32.dll or Kernel32.dll initialization errors.
MORE INFORMATION
- Internet Information Server (IIS) may exhibit this problem intermittently when processing CGI or Perl scripts. In this case the browser returns the following error when executing CGI scripts:
- Remote Command Service (RCMD) may also exhibit this problem. RCMD clients experience connect and disconnect messages when they attempt to access a server running RCMD service. This may be used as a test application to see if another service is running into this problem.
- Other third-party services (such as Patrol from BMC Software) are also known to fail because of this problem.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base for more information:
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