RE: [Firebird-devel] Embedded superserver

[Alan M. <al...@me...>]

> A> If the application hosting the dll desided to quit, what would
> happen to 3rd
> A> party applications using the dll as it's means of serving
> data? The host
> A> application would just close and drop the dll wouldn't it?
>
> Yes. Much like what happens when you shutdown an application that
> hosts an embedded server (fbembed.dll) or the fbserver itself. Client
> connections vanish.

but that's very rude isn't it? unlike a server which has a tendency to be
left running all the time, a host application can be started and stopped
frequently - you wouldn't get me connecting to a host app with little chance
of me being able to save my work before they decided to switch off and go
home for the night....

>
> For graceful shutdown a stop() exported function that pairs the
> start() one would be useful, but anyway Firebird is able to
> suffer termination without corrupting the data (in forced writes mode,
> that is).
>
> Ciao
> --
> Nando Dessena

That shoutdown would be fine if it were being called from the third party
application but if the host application called it, you would need a
mechanism to warn the 3rd party app to get ready for shutdown.

Alan