yes, that sounds like a good solution. When you first
mentioned the exit() problem, I saw that it could be
disabled with a global variable and reported it here.

What I failed to notice was that there was an option
in csoundInitialize() to do that. Good to know and
worth documenting somewhere.

Regards
Victor
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Yi" 
To: "Developer discussions" 
Cc: "jean-pierre lemoine" ; "Dave Phillips" 

Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Java and API on Linux Instability: Solved (I think!)


> Hi All,
>
> Just a follow up, I tested one Fedora with the csoundInitialize code
> in and it seemed to have stabilized any problems here as well.  I
> think it's the way to go!
>
> Thanks!
> steven
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Steven Yi  wrote:
>> Hi All!
>>
>> I've been working hard to figure out why using the API on Linux with
>> Java was so unstable and I think today I came up with a fix!  Very
>> very excited.  In thinking about the signal handlers and exit(1), I
>> realized that there was an API method called csoundInitialize that one
>> can init the library to turn off signal handlers and also remove
>> atexit.  As a test, I initialized the library using this early in blue
>> before instantiating any Csound instances:
>>
>> csnd.csnd.csoundInitialize(null, null, 
>> csnd.csnd.CSOUNDINIT_NO_SIGNAL_HANDLER);
>>
>> This turned off installing any signal handlers, and afterwards things
>> seemed to run well on Linux!  I had noticed when running with
>> -verbose:jni that there were some warnings reported about signal
>> handlers installed in Csound and those from the Java Virtual Machine
>> clashing somewhat.  My guess is that on Linux it's a catastrophic
>> clash while on Windows it's not a problem.
>>
>> I am going to test on Fedora next (did my tests on Ubuntu), but am
>> hopeful this will solve the problem.  I am wondering if it shouldn't
>> be general advice to do this kind of initialization to turn off
>> install signal handlers whenever using the Csound API, regardless of
>> host language.  Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> steven
>>
>
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