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

[Brian P. <bri...@tu...>]

Joel Welling wrote:
> 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.

I don't know how the crserver would be spawning any threads.  The 
crserver itself isn't even thread-safe.

Are you sure the GM library isn't creating the threads?

-Brian