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Conference abbott::mailworks-unix

Title:Mailworks-unix
Notice:V2.0.4 now available -- see Note 4.375
Moderator:TAMARA::NEUMAN::Neumann
Created:Wed Jun 02 1993
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1384
Total number of notes:5851

1378.0. "IPR 1071... Info ??" by COMICS::HALFACREE (Nothing is as it seems....) Mon May 19 1997 10:40

    Hi,
    
    Can anyone let me know what the status is with IPR 1071 as I have a
    customer who I believe has the same problem like in note 1030 where
    there was a problem shutting down the MSS process.
    
    I would have thought that the IPR would have been closed by now as it
    must have been raised back in 1995.
    
    Any info appreciated,
    
    Thanks,
    
    mike
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1378.1Still openTAMARA::NEUMAN::NeumannStan NeumannFri May 23 1997 11:2418
This IPR is still open, partly because we determined that
it is more of a nuisance problem than a serious problem.

The segmentation fault is the result of one thread closing
a socket during the shutdown, and another thread not being aware
that the socket has gone away.  While a segmentation fault
sounds ominous in general, in this case, it is relatively harmless.

We have made some changes to the stopMAILworks script (in V2.0
ECO2, if I recall) that shut down the other processes before the
mss - this appears to reduce the frequency of this error, but
has not completely eliminated it.

Does the customer believe that they are having real problems
as a result of this, or is it just the nervousness about
a segmentation fault?

-Stan
1378.2COMICS::HALFACREENothing is as it seems....Wed May 28 1997 07:0711
    Hi Stan,
    
    Thanks for replying, I've passed the information on to my customer who
    is going to upgrade to v2.0-4.
    
    I think they saw the segmentation fault and were worried it might be a
    severe problem, but your reply has put their mind at rest.
    
    Thanks again,
    
    Mike