[Ace-users] [ace-users] ACE_Reactor Thread Exits

[Douglas C. Schmidt]

Hi,

>Running ACE v4.5.1 on Solaris 10

You are using an ANCIENT version of ACE.  Please upgrade to ACE+TAO+CIAO x.6.1 (i.e., ACE 5.6.1, TAO 1.6.1, and
CIAO 0.6.1), which you can download from

http://download.dre.vanderbilt.edu

under the heading: "Latest Beta Kit."

The DOC groups at Washington University, UC Irvine, and Vanderbilt
University only provide "best effort" support for non-sponsors for the
latest release, as described in

http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/DOC_ROOT/ACE/docs/ACE-bug-process.html

Thus, if you need more "predictable" help for earlier versions of
ACE+TAO, I recommend that you check out

http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/support.html

for a list of companies that will provide you with ACE+TAO commercial
support.

>We are using the ACE_Select_Reactor to manage TCP stream sockets,
>whereby
>we register an ACE_Event_Handler with the ACE_Reactor to handle each
>socket
>connection.
>
>Other than the explicit -1 return from a handle_* callback method, hat
>is the correct way to
>subsequently inform the ACE_Reactor that we would like to close a
>given TCP socket?

Please see Chapter 3 of C++NPv1 <www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE/book1/>
for details on how to do this.

>Is it OK to call ACE_Reactor::instance()->remove_handler()
>from a different thread than the thread running the ACE_Reactor event
>loop?

Yes, that should work fine - assuming you're using the appropriate
type of Reactor (again, see Chapter 3 of C++NPv1 for details).

>It seems like this causes the socket to be closed and then appears as
>EBADF in the ACE_Reactor's select loop.  And if the associated file
>descriptor is quickly reused (e.g. for another socket connection or
>file),
>then there is a window where the ACE_Reactor may get confused and exit
>its thread
>from within its check_handles() method.

I recommend you upgrade..

Thanks,

Doug
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