I think calling exit() is not very satisfactory. There is a static variable
(exitNow_) that seems to control this (is it supposed to be used?).

Victor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Yi" 
To: "Developer discussions" 
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 7:38 AM
Subject: [Cs-dev] API Instability on Linux


> Hi All,
>
> I've been trying to diagnose instability with blue and using the API
> on Linux and am starting to get somewhere but need some advice.  I
> found that if I run the JVM with -Xcheck:jni, I can run blue on Linux
> with the API.  What this flag does though is to do some wrapping of
> native methods, and although I'm not quite sure exactly what happens,
> I did see that it does report the signal handlers (SIGTERM, etc.) for
> the app.  That made me think and I looked around and in the app and
> noticed in Top/csound.c we have the signal_handler calling exit(1).
> I'm wondering if this is what is killing blue when something goes off
> in csound, or could be related.  I see that most places when there is
> an error we do not directly exit but rather longjmp. With the
> signal_handler, we don't have a reference to csound though.
>
> So, does this seem problematic to anyone that we're calling exit()?
> I'm not all that sure if this will always take down a host if using
> the API and whether this is really what is causing the problem.  So
> any help here very much appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
> steven
>
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