[Vortex] How to correctly close a connection?

[Robert M. Münch]

Am 06.10.2008, 18:32 Uhr, schrieb Francis Brosnan Blazquez  
<francis at aspl.es>:

> This is correct. However, every on going transfer, in both sides, will
> be cancelled.

Hi, ok. But overall the receiver part shouldn't be affected in switch back  
to the listening state.

>> 2. I want to make sure that a call to disconnect from the script hangs  
>> as long there is still a transfer running on the vortex side. So,  
>> blocking
>> the script. How can I check if vortex channels are still in use and wait
>> until I can close a connection gracefully?
>
> It depends on your protocol. Who is going to close the connection, the
> server (frame received) or the client? or both?

The client. But the script on the client is asynchronous as well. So the  
client script needs either to poll via a call if a transfer is still  
ongoing before calling the close-connection function. The other option (I  
prefer) is to make close-connection blocking until all transfers ended.

> This is right. If you receive this notification, then the connection was
> notified to be closed. However, the connection is still accesible until
> all vortex subsystem drop its references to the connection (and those
> ones created by your code).

Ok. The client uses a shutdown call for this. On the receiver side, I do  
it by hand because the receiver switches back to listening state to serve  
other possible client connections.

> But, it crashes when the connection that was notified to be closed is
> used again? or...?

No, on the server at the moment the client closes the connection.

> If so, the connection must not be used once the handler finishes.

Yes, this is ensured and I don't use it anylonger.


The strange thing is, I only get the crash on Linux. On Windows it works.  
Here is the GDB backtrace:

#0  0xb7ebc71c in free () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#1  0xb7d3060d in axl_hash_free (hash=0x3e8bb) at axl_hash.c:1216
#2  0xb7d028f8 in vortex_hash_destroy (hash_table=0x821a908)
     at vortex_hash.c:357
#3  0xb7cebdf1 in vortex_connection_free (connection=0x821a598)
     at vortex_connection.c:2494
#4  0xb7d00d61 in __vortex_reader_build_set_to_watch_aux (
     on_reading=0x814f118, cursor=0x814f840, current_max=10)
     at vortex_reader.c:971
#5  0xb7d0200d in __vortex_reader_run (ctx=0x814e108) at  
vortex_reader.c:1228
#6  0xb7cc5240 in start_thread () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#7  0xb7f2249e in clone () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6

Any idea?

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