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In article <12964@ecs.soton.ac.uk> ams90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (SHEHAB AM) writes:
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>  I have come across a little problem; it goes as follows:
>
>I need to create lots of nearly identical worker processes
>dynamically.  Then once they have executed they return their
>results to their parent processes and should die.  It is when the die
>that my problem starts; how do I get rid of the process from the heap?
>The processes are not started by ProcPar...etc but by ProcRun for
>various reasons.  This means that I can not use ProcAllocClean which
>proved to crash the processors sometimes. I have tried free(process
>pointer) to no avail.

The next release of the ANSI C toolset relaxes the restriction that
ProcAllocClean may only be used with synchronous processes.  A new function
has been introduced which allows a parent process to wait for an asychronous
child process to terminate (similar to wait in a UNIX shell script) to ensure
that ProcAllocClean is not applied to an executing process.

Please contact your normal supplier for release dates of the next ANSI C
toolset as I'm afraid I don't know them.


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