[Gambas-user] Problem with Embedded Server

[Benoit Minisini]

Le 01/03/2023 à 21:19, T Lee Davidson a écrit :
> On 3/1/23 14:46, T Lee Davidson wrote:
>>
>>> Ok. Claus provided an application with which it happens.
>>
>> No, I have not. I'll have to go find it. While I'm there, I'll try to 
>> find the discussion from when I raised this issue, I 
>> think, a couple of years ago.
> 
> Okay, it wasn't even a year ago.
> First asked: 
> https://lists.gambas-basic.org/pipermail/user/2022-June/076211.html
> Asked again: 
> https://lists.gambas-basic.org/pipermail/user/2022-June/076222.html
> 
> I got webapp4_Prelease-3.7.7.tar.gz from the link Clause posted. But, 
> then Hans sent me an updated version, webapp4-3.7.12.tar.gz.
> 
> With v3.7.12 I cannot reproduce the issue. I have launched and 
> relaunched it a number of times immediately after another; running 
> through all the top menu items each time. It works fine here. :-\
> 
> 

Commit 
https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas/-/commit/cac1a0f3d0919d757337cb805ec34d2479378132 
should fix the problem, if people want to try.

It's actually a workaround. But not an ugly workaround. A reasonable one.

I think there is some race condition behind that stuff, related to the 
fact that I move the fifo between the debugger and the IDE between 
blocking and non-blocking state, leading to random read or write failures.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini.