<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)">
<style>
<!--
 /* Font Definitions */
 @font-face
        {font-family:"Cambria Math";
        panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
        {font-family:Calibri;
        panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
        {font-family:Tahoma;
        panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
@font-face
        {font-family:Consolas;
        panose-1:2 11 6 9 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
 /* Style Definitions */
 p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
        {margin:0in;
        margin-bottom:.0001pt;
        font-size:11.0pt;
        font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
        {mso-style-priority:99;
        color:blue;
        text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
        {mso-style-priority:99;
        color:purple;
        text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
        {mso-style-type:personal-compose;
        font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
        color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
        {mso-style-type:export-only;}
@page WordSection1
        {size:8.5in 11.0in;
        margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
        {page:WordSection1;}
-->
</style>

</head>

<body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">

<div class="WordSection1">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">Hi,</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">I am evaluating the vortex alive
feature, which was broken until the latest release. </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">Thanks for the fix!!!!</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">I think I found another, but
minor bug:</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">In <span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">vortex_alive_enable_check(…)</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">axl_bool          
vortex_alive_enable_check              
<span style="color:fuchsia">(</span>VortexConnection <span style="color:fuchsia">*</span>
conn<span style="color:fuchsia">,</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">                                                   
<b><span style="color:red">long</span></b>              
check_period<span style="color:fuchsia">,</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">                                                   
<b><span style="color:red">int</span></b>               
max_unreply_count<span style="color:fuchsia">,</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">                                                   
VortexAliveFailure failure_handler<span style="color:fuchsia">)</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas;color:fuchsia">{</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">       VortexAliveData <span style="color:fuchsia">*</span> data<span style="color:fuchsia">;</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">       VortexCtx       
<span style="color:fuchsia">*</span> ctx <span style="color:fuchsia">=</span>
CONN_CTX <span style="color:fuchsia">(</span>conn<span style="color:fuchsia">);</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">       <b><span style="color:red">if</span></b> <span style="color:fuchsia">(</span>check_period
<span style="color:fuchsia">&lt;=</span> <span style="color:navy">0</span> <span style="color:fuchsia">||</span> max_unreply_count <span style="color:fuchsia">&lt;</span>
<span style="color:navy">0</span><span style="color:fuchsia">)</span> <span style="color:fuchsia">{</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">              vortex_log
<span style="color:fuchsia">(</span>VORTEX_LEVEL_CRITICAL<span style="color:fuchsia">,</span> <span style="color:blue">&quot;Expecified an
unsupported check period or max unreply count. Both must be &gt; 0.&quot;</span><span style="color:fuchsia">);</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">              <b><span style="color:red">return</span></b> axl_false<span style="color:fuchsia">;</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">       <span style="color:fuchsia">}</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">       <span style="color:green">/* check if the connection is already checked */</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">       <b><span style="color:red">if</span></b> <span style="color:fuchsia">(</span>PTR_TO_INT <span style="color:fuchsia">(</span>vortex_connection_get_data <span style="color:fuchsia">(</span>conn<span style="color:fuchsia">,</span>
VORTEX_ALIVE_CHECK_ENABLED<span style="color:fuchsia">)))</span> <span style="color:fuchsia">{</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">              vortex_log
<span style="color:fuchsia">(</span>VORTEX_LEVEL_WARNING<span style="color:
fuchsia">,</span> <span style="color:blue">&quot;Calling to enable connection
alive check where it is already enabled&quot;</span><span style="color:fuchsia">);</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">              <b><span style="color:red">return</span></b> axl_false<span style="color:fuchsia">;</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">       <span style="color:fuchsia">}</span> <span style="color:green">/* end if */</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">       <span style="color:green">/* check to get a reference to the connection */</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">       data      
<span style="color:fuchsia">=</span> axl_new <span style="color:fuchsia">(</span>VortexAliveData<span style="color:fuchsia">,</span> <span style="color:navy">1</span><span style="color:fuchsia">);</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">       <b><span style="color:red">if</span></b> <span style="color:fuchsia">(</span>data <span style="color:fuchsia">==</span> NULL<span style="color:fuchsia">)</span> <span style="color:fuchsia">{</span></span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">              vortex_log
<span style="color:fuchsia">(</span>VORTEX_LEVEL_CRITICAL<span style="color:fuchsia">,</span> <span style="color:blue">&quot;failed to acquire
memory to hold VortexAliveData, unable to continue&quot;</span><span style="color:fuchsia">);</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">              <b><span style="color:red">return</span></b> axl_false<span style="color:fuchsia">;</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">       <span style="color:fuchsia">}</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">       data<span style="color:fuchsia">-&gt;</span>conn             
<span style="color:fuchsia">=</span> conn<span style="color:fuchsia">;</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">       data<span style="color:fuchsia">-&gt;</span>failure_handler   <span style="color:fuchsia">=</span> failure_handler<span style="color:fuchsia">;</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">       data<span style="color:fuchsia">-&gt;</span>max_unreply_count <span style="color:fuchsia">=</span>
max_unreply_count<span style="color:fuchsia">;</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">       data<span style="color:fuchsia">-&gt;</span>check_period      <span style="color:fuchsia">=</span> check_period<span style="color:fuchsia">;</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">       <b><span style="color:red">if</span></b> <span style="color:fuchsia">(!</span>
vortex_connection_ref <span style="color:fuchsia">(</span>conn<span style="color:fuchsia">,</span> <span style="color:blue">&quot;alive-check&quot;</span><span style="color:fuchsia">))</span> <span style="color:fuchsia">{</span></span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">              vortex_log
<span style="color:fuchsia">(</span>VORTEX_LEVEL_CRITICAL<span style="color:fuchsia">,</span> <span style="color:blue">&quot;Failed to enable
alive check, connection reference acquisition have failed&quot;</span><span style="color:fuchsia">);</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">BUG:&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; Memory leak: data pointer should be
freed here.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">              <b><span style="color:red">return</span></b> axl_false<span style="color:fuchsia">;</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;
font-family:Consolas">       <span style="color:fuchsia">}</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Gernot
Seidler<br>
Software Architect</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Egenera
Inc. | Converge. Unify. Simplify.™ </span></b><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">508-858-3185
(office)<br>
508-481-3114 (fax)</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
color:blue">http:</span></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
color:blue"><a href="http://www.egenera.com/" title="http://www.egenera.com/"><span style="color:blue">//www.egenera.com</span><span style="color:black"><br>
</span></a><a href="http://blog.egenera.com/"><span style="color:blue">http://blog.egenera.com</span></a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>

</div>

</body>

</html>