Experimental Physics and
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Carsten Winkler <[email protected]> · Fri, 24 Feb 2017 12:26:42 +0100

Hi there,

thank you for all response. It can be summarized as follows:

#1 libCom has the errlog thread that is never stopped.
#2 libCa registers a function pointer using epicsAtExit and if it will
fail if if libca is unloaded.
#3 There are also a number of one-time allocations which aren't cleaned up.
#4 It has something to do with the ca repeater process
#5 It has something to do with LabVIEW and it's memory management
#6 Ca context destroy doesn't clean up components in libCom and other
dependent libraries
#7 Question whether libCom will be unloaded
#8 Cleaning up with epicsExit()

My questions/answers to this points:

#1 Where/when exactly this thread is started? How can I terminate it?
#2 When will the function epicsAtExit called in my demo?
    Do you think, this function pointer leaves bad memory sections in my
case?
#3 That's what I'm looking for. Do I have any chance to resolve it?
#4 No, the caRepater is not involved. When I run my test app there is no
caRepeater process running.
#5 No, LabVIEW was the trigger only to investigate the issue. But every
program with plugin interface will have the same problem. The most
simple example is my test case.
#6 How can I do the necessary clean up?
#7 In Windows I see that Com.dll won't be unloaded. I guess it's the
same in Linux. How can I detect loaded libs at runtime?
     Will unloading of libCom solve the issue?
#8 The function epicsExit() ends with exit(status); and will terminate
calling program too. That is what I try to prevent.

Phew, it seems to be quite complicated. Hope we find a solution together.

Best regards
Carsten

Am 23.02.2017 um 23:51 schrieb Michael Davidsaver:
> On 02/23/2017 05:26 PM, Hill, Jeff wrote:
>>>> The CA client library _is_ cleaning up all of its allocations if
>>> ca_context_destroy is explicitly called, but this is of course not universal for
>>> components in libCom and or EPICS base.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/blob/3.14/src/ca/access.cpp#L139
>>>
>>> https://github.com/epics-base/epics-
>>> base/blob/3.14/src/ca/ca_client_context.cpp#L56
>> It does appear, from my perspective, to be cleaning up there but I could have another look if that’s not the case.
> It is cleaning up with epicsExit(), not ca_context_destroy().
>

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