Re: sqlexit(); never returns

norbert.geissler@mch.sni.de wrote: > Hello out there, > I've got a funny problem using INFORMIX 5.0 SE on a HP/715 with HP-UX 9.0 . > I use the database server control function sqlexit(); within an ESQL/C > program to detach from the database backend. > But this function never returns. In fact it loops, consuming as much CPU-time > as possible. > Did anyone out there have the same problem ? > Can anybody give me a hint what's the reason and how I can how solve > this problem (of course without deleting sqlexit(); !) ?? > Thanks in advance, > Norbert I seem to remember seeing problems with sqlexit() if there isn't currently an engine connected. There's an undocumented flag in libsql called forkflag (found using nm) which seems to correspond to the presence of an attached engine, and you'd have thought that sqlexit() would check this but it doesn't, so: extern int forkflag; if (forkflag) sqlexit(); *might* solve your problem, but then again we're running 4.10. Cheers Bill =========================================================================== | Bill Hails <bill@tardis.co.uk> | | | C.L.I. Connect Ltd. | README: permission denied | | 19, Quarry St., Guildford, Surrey | (sic) | | GU1 3UY. Tel (UK) 0483 300 200 | | ===========================================================================