52032_2326@uwovax.uwo.ca (Mark Hartwell (or mah@rri9000.uwo.ca)) (08/05/88)
A brief warning of interest to VMS users of the Database package SIR. Seems there is a bug in SIR V2.2 whereby DECNET jobs crap out when using interactve SCHEMA and "SAVE". This happens when running VIA decnet to the same machine (is on machine xxx typing "SET HOST XXX"). As near as I can tell the parent waits for the child to terminate and the child cannot tell who the parent is, and the resulting message craps out the decnet link. I hate to bother the net with this info, but seems that even after the DECNET connection dies a child sub-process continues to run in an infinite cpu-intensive loop! SIR users should be warned that if a SIR/SCHEMA job terminates abnormally they should make sure it's children have stopped. This happened to me, and there was no message which implied the job did not trap the erro normally, but the next day someone notice my child was STILL active and had consumed 11 hours of CPU time in 14 hours wall time because of this bug! Regardless, the SIR 2.2 is a >>>VERY<<< hardy version. Besides, life would be mundane without the un-expected, eh? Mark Hartwell Robarts Research Institute