[sword-devel] Reliability of Sword again (Sword Server)

Chris Little sword-devel@crosswire.org
Sat, 7 Sep 2002 08:16:48 -0700 (MST)


I'm not sure what your question is here exactly.  I'm unaware of any 
condition under which a module can cause Sword to hang.  If you are, you 
should report it.

--Chris

On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 porton@narod.ru wrote:

> Developing Sword Server I realized that if a wrong module can cause libSword 
> to hang then I need a process for every connection to make one connection 
> unhangable by other ones! Otherwise I can use something faster than processes 
> like threads, asynchronous i/o etc.
> 
> Moreover if it is possible to hang libSword by a wrong data, then I need a 
> process which will be busy killing hanged server processes to not cause many 
> hanged processes hanging around.
> 
> So what is the current degree of stability of Sword in respect of the wrong 
> input data?
>