Re: File left open in QZRCSRVS job

On 05/05/2008, at 6:24 PM, Jevgeni Astanovski wrote:

2. From what was advised, trying to capture an error and then forced file close before exit seemed pretty simple. But it assumed, that I know what exception to capture. Because capturing the exception "File cannot be cleared as it is held" gives me nothing, as it is already late. To find this exception I've placed several "printf" into the program to trace it somehow. But :-((( it never crashed since that time. Before that it crashed almost every day...

If you mean that your program has been recompiled with additional printf statements and now the failure doesn't occur then that suggests the real cause is a storage management issue.

While this can happen with other programming languages it is more prevalent with C because of its peculiar views on storage (no fixed- length variables, no compiler support for bounds checking, strings are arrays and arrays are just pointers, etc.)

In general, if your C code is failing and then starts working once you put printf (or other) statements in the code you probably have an issue with storage corruption. By adding the additional statements you've just moved the corruption to a less sensitive area of storage.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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