Method and apparatus for external crash analysis in a multitasking operating system

摘要

The invention provides a method, and a program for investigating the operation of processes of an application program running on a multitasking operating system of a computer system to determine if any of the processes have stopped for a predetermined exception incident, by: identifying to the operating system a plurality of predetermined exceptions to be investigated; instructing said operating system to stop a process when it encounters one of the predetermined exception incidents; scanning the computer system periodically for stopped processes; determining whether a stopped process has been identified as having encountered a predetermined exception incident; and performing a predetermined action if the process has encountered a predetermined exception incident.