[Ace-users] [ace-users] ACE_Reactor removeHandler() Etiquitte

[Douglas C. Schmidt]

Hi Steve,

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(PRF), which is in

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$TAO_ROOT/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM

Make sure to include this information when asking any questions about
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developer team will be able to answer your question.  Naturally, we
encourage and appreciate other members of the ACE+TAO user community
who can respond to questions that they have the answers to.

>In working with a dynamically allocated event handler that inherits
>from ACE_Event_Handler (e.g. a UDP handler),
>is it permissible for the application code to call
>ACE_Reactor::instance()->remove_handler(), at any point, to force
>the ACE_Reactor to remove the event handler from its tables and call
>handle_close()?

Yes, that should be fine.  BTW, are you using Windows or non-Windows?
Likewise, which Reactor implementation are you using?

>Also, what if the call to ACE_Reactor::instance()->remove_handler()
>fails?

This call shouldn't fail unless something totally insane is going on,
e.g., you've already called remove_handler() on the event handler or
you've returned -1 from handle_input(), etc.

>What would be a reasonable cleanup procedure in this case?
>Should I call handle_close() from my application code (which will do
>the `delete this` on the event handler)?

Yes, assuming

1. You allocated the event handler dynamically and

2. You are certain the reactor doesn't have a pointer to your event handler!

BTW, there's more discussion about this in Chapter 3 and 4 of C++NPv2
<www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE/book2/>.

Thanks,

     Doug
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