On 2021/03/22 23:59, Fujii Masao wrote:
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> On 2021/03/20 13:40, Masahiro Ikeda wrote:
>> Sorry, there is no evidence we should call it.
>> I thought that to call FreeWaitEventSet() is a manner after using
>> CreateWaitEventSet() and the performance impact to call it seems to be too
>> small.
>>
>> (Please let me know if my understanding is wrong.)
>> The reason why I said this is a manner because I thought it's no problem
>> even without calling FreeWaitEventSet() before the process exits regardless
>> of fast or immediate shutdown. Since the "WaitEventSet *wes" is a process
>> local resource,
>> this will be released by OS even if FreeWaitEventSet() is not called.
>>
>> I'm now changing my mind to skip it is better because the code can be
>> simpler and,
>> it's unimportant for the above reason especially when the immediate shutdown is
>> requested which is a bad manner itself.
>
> Thanks for explaining this! So you're thinking that v3 patch should be chosen?
> Probably some review comments I posted upthread need to be applied to
> v3 patch, e.g., rename of SignalHandlerForUnsafeExit() function.
Yes. I attached the v5 patch based on v3 patch.
I renamed SignalHandlerForUnsafeExit() and fixed the following comment.
> "SIGTERM or SIGQUIT of our parent postmaster" should be
> "SIGTERM, SIGQUIT, or detect ungraceful death of our parent
> postmaster"?
>> BTW, the SysLoggerMain() create the WaitEventSet, but it didn't call
>> FreeWaitEventSet().
>> Is it better to call FreeWaitEventSet() before exiting too?
>
> Yes if which could cause actual issue. Otherwise I don't have strong
> reason to do that for now..
OK. AFAIK, this doesn't lead critical problems like memory leak.
Regards,
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Masahiro Ikeda
NTT DATA CORPORATION
