I forgot to mention that I am using libevent-2.02alpha. I think it definately makes sence to free the event before closing the handle, but it just didn't occur to me before.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Adrian Chadd <adr...@creative.net.au>wrote: > Well, the order of which you can do this depends on what the underlying OS > will > "do for you". > > I'd suggest sticking to "delete event, close socket" usage. Anything else > isn't portable. > > Nick, is this actually documented anywhere? > > > > Adrian > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009, Gilad Benjamini wrote: > > I just resolved a similar issue today, where I needed to close a file > > descriptor AFTER deleting an event. > > > > My symptoms, though, were different. > > > > What underlying mechanism is your libevent using ? > > > > In my case it is epoll. With select or poll my scenario had no problems, > in > > spite of the wrong order. > > > > > > > > From: libevent-users-boun...@monkey.org > > [mailto:libevent-users-boun...@monkey.org] On Behalf Of Clint Webb > > Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 7:46 PM > > To: libevent-users@monkey.org > > Subject: [Libevent-users] Must delete events before closing the socket > > handle > > > > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > > > After spending over a week debugging a project I am working on, I have > > discovered that you must delete any persistent events BEFORE you close > the > > socket handle. > > > > Just letting other people know who might not have noticed it before. > > > > > > > > The symptom will be that the next time the same socket handle is > assigned, > > events will not fire when data arrives on the socket. In some cases I > was > > getting segfaults. > > > > > > I've attached some code that will echo what it receives. It can be used > to > > demonstrate what happens. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > "Be excellent to each other" > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Libevent-users mailing list > > Libevent-users@monkey.org > > http://monkeymail.org/mailman/listinfo/libevent-users > > > -- > - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid > Support - > - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA - > -- "Be excellent to each other"
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