Re: Problem with the timeout code

[Jules Colding <colding 42tools com>]

On 09/05/2008, at 16.37, Michael Meeks wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 11:27 +0200, Jules Colding wrote:
> > > - Make sure giop_thread_free() is not called on threads associated
> > > with connections for which timeouts are outstanding. Is this  
> > > feasible?
> > > It sounds kinda like a clean and obvious solution, but I don't  
> > > really
> > > understand the code that well...
> > >
> > > Jules, do you have any ideas? Have you ever seen this happen?
> >
> > I've never seen this happen before. I would agree that your proposal
> > number 3 is the way to go, but I can not clearly see how to implement
> > it. Michael?
>
> 	Really, it's not that clear to me how we are doing a thread_free and
> the continuing to wait for a timeout in that thread ;-)
>
> 	Are we correctly de-registering the timeout after we finish waiting ?

I certainly think we are. I may have made an error but I was careful  
to ref/unref whenever appropriate.

BR,
  jules



> or does the timeout get triggered in the IO thread or something ? :-)
>
> 	Regards,
>
> 		Michael.
>
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