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- From: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick)
- Subject: MEMORY LEAK FIXED
- Message-ID: <C0JvBo.3q2@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Originator: shulick@navajo
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- Organization: Vallen Software
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:26:10 GMT
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- Ok! let me explain how I fixed it.
- Let's say you run "server", it goes up. Ok.. this is 'server1', we'll
- call it. So you try to shut it down by typing "server" again.. we'll
- call this proc 'server2'. Currently, server1 is at WaitPort(), waiting
- for a message. server2 runs, finds itself already running, and tries to
- DeleteMsgPort(), RemPort(), etc. Well, server1's port is now off the
- port list, but it's still at a WaitPort(). So the server, in actuality,
- was never shut down. I figured this out by compiling the server to NOT
- run in the background, and noticed it was still running after I had
- "shut it down". (thanks, mlel!) Below is the complete source, server.c
- (the server), foomsg.h, and send.c (to send messages to the port). The
- server can be shut down with either "server" ( a 2nd time) or "send
- *shutdown". Thanks for your time & effort. If you find any more
- possible bugs or things like that, let me know. =u)
-
- -------snip---------
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- end
- --
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