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- From: gaukur@rhi.hi.is (Kristjan Gaukur Kristjansson)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Endless loops on abstract quitting?
- Message-ID: <5295@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 09:59:32 GMT
- Sender: usenet@rhi.hi.is
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- Hello netters!
-
- My system is I-OnLine 4.1 with I-4GL RDS on an IBM R-6000 320 AIX 3.1 with
- users coming in through ethernet. Now sometimes when they quit abstractly
- (like turning off the terminal/computer without quiting the system or breaking
- out with ctrl-c or somesuch) the 'fglgo' process goes into an endless loop
- eating up all the cpu it can get.
- When first I set up the connection for the users I ran the program with the
- 'exec' command and this problem happened all the time. Then I stopped using
- the 'exec' command and let the programs run in their own shell and now it
- only happens once in a while.
- My guru suggested that what happens is that a read command gets an 'eof'
- message when the connection breaks but doesn't get or doesn't interpret
- correctly the exit code that says the connections dead.
-
- Has anyone had a similar problem, and maybe an explanation and a fix?
-
- Any help greatly appreciated,
-
- Gaukur.
-
- gaukur@rhi.hi.is
-