RE: ILE - Tried to refer to an object that no longer exists...

["Sims, Ken" <KSIMS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brad -

>Has anyone had a problem where you're running a program that uses
>subprocedures and then it crashes (in developement or testing only, 
>of course <bg>).
>
>So, you try to start up the program again and it crashes right away 
>giving you a "tried to refer to an object that no longer exists" 
>error on the service program containing the subprocedure(s) you were 
>using?

When the caller crashes, all of the files opened by the service program are
closed, but the service program remains active.  If you look at the open
files with DSPJOB, you will see that the files are no longer open.  If you
step into the service program in debug, you will see that the "tried to
refer to an object that no longer exists" does not occur until the service
program tries to use one of those files.  The file's open data path is the
object that has been destroyed.

I create our service programs as *CALLER and try to create the callers as
*NEW so that if they crash, everything gets cleaned up.

Ken
Southern Wine and Spirits of Nevada, Inc.
Opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of
my employer or anyone in their right mind.

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