Re: Sporadic core dumps (dangling timer??)

I had a similar crash on win32. I had to add a call to 
HTEventTerminate(); before deleting my HTRequest object. Otherwise the 
timeout would trigger and try to call into old HTRequest handlers (and 
die). Not sure that applies to the select-based HTEvent stuff though.

TTimo

Eggenstein, Heinz-Bernd wrote:

>Hi!
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>I'm experiencing a mysterious problem running a relatively simple application using libwww 5.4.0 under Digital Unix. The application is doing HTTP POST requests sequentially to a fixed host (running an Apache Server) in a LAN. 
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>>From time to time, I get core dumps with the same kind of symptoms: The backtrace sems to indicate that the libwww code calls a callback function which is set to a data pointer resulting in an illegal instruction error.
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>The error happens when in HTEvtLst.c , 
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>PRIVATE int EventListTimerHandler (HTTimer * timer, void * param, HTEventType type)
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>is executed (with type=HTEvent_TIMEOUT ) and calls a callback function in line 229: 
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>if (sockp->timeouts[HTEvent_INDEX(HTEvent_OOB)] == timer) {
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>event = sockp->events[HTEvent_INDEX(HTEvent_OOB)];
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>HTTRACE(THD_TRACE, "Event....... OOB timed out on %d.\n" _ sockp->s);
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>// line 229:
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>return (*event->cbf) (sockp->s, event->param, HTEvent_TIMEOUT);
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>// =======
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>}
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>...
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>However the callback pointer is really a pointer to some data object resulting in a core dump. Probably (at least) the event data was already freed and re-allocated to some other object.
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>Also, when inspecting the "timer" argument to EventListTimerHandler , it turns out that this is infact an HTHost object, not An HTTimer object. 
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>This HTHost object might even happen to offer some interesting clues: it's timestamp suggests it was created right before the core dump, it is in state TCP_NEED_CONNECT , reqsMade = 1 and registeredFor = 16 ( HTEvent_CONNECT) . 
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>The machine this is happening on is known to experience network problems from time to time and is operating under a heavy CPU load. This bahavior could not be reproduced on other machines (with lower CPU usage and w/o network probs).
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>Can anybody offer some clues what condition may cause this bahavior (and how to fix this)?
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>Thanks in advance,
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>Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein
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