Re: Server - tasking and long lived connections

[Thierry Lelegard <thierry.lelegard@canal-plus.fr>]

Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote :
> 
> "Thierry Lelegard" <thierry.lelegard@canal-plus.fr> a �crit dans le message news: 3C1DB7B7.DF767F9@canal-plus.fr...
> > I think that the trap in this kind of applications (servers with one
> > or more tasks per client connection) is the fate of the tasks when
> > the client disconnects. If you let the tasks die and recreate new
> > tasks for new client connections, you will most certainly face some
> > slow memory leak. We have seen that, although the stack itself is
> > deallocated when a task dies, there aer a few bytes which remain
> > allocated (some kind of TCB I suppose).
> >
> This was due to the (in)famous Rosen's pathology ;-)
> It has been (fortunately) exterminated in in Ada 95, so the problem should not appear any more.

Quite interesting. Could you elaborate on this? What kind of change was
introduced in Ada95 to eliminate this?

-Thierry
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