How long will shell work for you?

[Timothy Finley]

For all the people who have things mostly done, do you have any problems
running b.exe or long.exe multiple times? I can run b.exe twice fine, but
on the third time it starts up it fails with a refCount assertion failure.
Now long.exe won't fail until the fourth time I try to start it. I presume
that I'm failing to clean up correctly, but was wondering if anyone else
had this problem.

Tim

[Julio Espinoza-Sokal]

I ran into a similar problem with my project where calling b.exe and
long.exe would randomly fail the refCount assertion and it seems to have
gone away once I remembered to initialize the memory I allocated for the
userContext before using it. I probably wasn't setting initial values for
everything I needed to be.

Julio

Post by Timothy Finley
For all the people who have things mostly done, do you have any problems
running b.exe or long.exe multiple times? I can run b.exe twice fine, but
on the third time it starts up it fails with a refCount assertion failure.
Now long.exe won't fail until the fourth time I try to start it. I presume
that I'm failing to clean up correctly, but was wondering if anyone else
had this problem.
Tim

[Timothy Finley]

Bingo, I should remember that you can't assume too much about default
values in C. Thanks,

Tim

[Ben Rogers]

I am now running into the same problem too. How did you initialize the
memory for the user context. I tried using memset, but then shell stops
running for some reason. I guess my question is did you use memset, or
just initialize all the values?

[Julio Espinoza-Sokal]

All I did was use memset just after my Malloc calls to set the entire memory
block to '\0'.

Post by Ben Rogers
I am now running into the same problem too. How did you initialize the
memory for the user context. I tried using memset, but then shell stops
running for some reason. I guess my question is did you use memset, or
just initialize all the values?