Re: Updates Galore

[Nat Friedman <nat novell com>]

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 00:03, Ryan P Skadberg wrote:

> The Clue Packet Manager is still crashing here and there.  Large
> Segfaults during HTML and Text Chainers.  Haven't had a chance to look
> at it yet, but these are the biggest crashes.  Also, seeing Null Pointer
> Exceptions in the Text Indexer and RSS backends thus far.  Looks like we
> need to be checking for these more closely.

The crashes occur because of the following sequence of events:

        * Cluepacket comes in
        
        * RunQuery in the CPM kills any outstanding running threads
        
        * A new thread is launched for each backend
        
        * One of those backends is a chainer.  it creates a new
        cluepacket, and sends it out
        
        * the new, chained cluepacket comes in
        
        * RunQuery in the CPM kills any outstanding running threads:
        INCLUDING ITSELF!
        
I'm in Zurich in transit or I'd fix it myself right now...

Nat