RE: Re: quit files

"'Dave Wade' [email protected] [hercules-390]" <[email protected]> Sat, 22 Jun 2019 21:22:43 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.general
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Sent: 22 June 2019 21:07
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [hercules-390] Re: quit files
> 
> ---In [email protected], <joemonk64@...> wrote :
> 
> > You're wrong. Plainly.
> 
> No. You are. Plainly.
> 
> > When you type quit (in ANY  hypervisor) with a running guest, the
> > guest ( in this case MVS) hangs. There is no way for the log file to
> > be flushed because the write(s) from the guest cant be completed.
> > Hercules is flushing what it has in its buffers.
> 
> No, the log file in question belongs to Hercules, not MVS, and Hercules
> should be cleanly closing all its disk files and reporting that verbiage in the log
> file (as it randomly does already), and ending up by reporting that the logger
> thread is terminating (again, as it randomly does already).
> 

Whilst I am with you 100% with diagnosis, I can see that debugging and fixing this is likely to take a lot of work for negligible gain....
.... Whilst I would assume it already stops the CPUs does adding a "STOPALL" before the quit help? 


> BFN. Paul.
> 
> 

 Dave