[Qt-creator] GDB Debug helper

[Lars Amsel]

Friedemann,

Friedemann Kleint wrote:
>> Currently I don't have the time to dive deeper into this. But maybe you may
>>  help make QtCreator more verbose than just saying 'access denied'.
> 
> This error message is unfortunately the the most verbose message we can get at 
> this point ;-)

I love it.

> As Andre mentioned, we cannot really reproduce it; so, I can't quite put my 
> finger on it, but I have a feeling that this is caused by one of the security 
> restrictions to be found at:
> 
> Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Local Security Policy\Local Policies
> 
> The user should have at least: 
> 
> User Rights Assignment: Debug Programs 
> 
> permission (although debugging works for non-administrative users that do not 
> have that right on my machine).

The documentation says this right is necessary for user who want to attach to 
any process (not only their own ones). This should not be the case for debug 
processes started out of QtCreator. Anyway, granting this right to my
unprivileged account does not change the behaviour.

> If that is granted and the dumper still fails, there might be some other 
> setting in the way (eg Security Options).

I will try to investigate this and report about the results. Could you point 
out, what the CreateProcess call looks like.

regards

Lars
> 
> Regards,
> Friedemann