[Chromium-dev] Problems with shutdown of crserver for non-tcpip connections

[Joel W. <we...@st...>]

Hi folks;
  I'm encountering a problem managing the crserver processes for configs in 
which I use the teac network mechanism; I think it will also be seen in things 
like GM.  When I spawn the crserver I keep track of its PID, and when I want 
it to terminate I send a TERM signal to that PID.  Fair enough; the process 
that got that signal terminates, running through the 'teardown' routine in the 
crserverlib code.
  The problem is, by this time the crserver has spawned 2 child processes.  I 
believe they are actually other threads, but I'm not sure- I know they are not 
being created with crSpawn().  One of those threads is very, very busy doing a 
wait loop, waiting for messages on my high-bandwidth network.  That process, 
and the third process which is its child, do *not* die when their parent (the 
originally spawned process) gets the TERM signal.
  Can anyone confirm for me that these are threads, and tell me which bit of 
code is likely to be spawning them?  Are their PIDs or thread IDs getting 
saved anywhere?  I can modify the teardown procedure to kill them if I have 
their names, but I can't simply kill the whole process group- that kills 
innocent bystanders.

Thanks,
-Joel
 we...@ps...