OnAutoItExitRegister and crash/task-kill

[Burgaud]

According to documentation:

Quote

There must be a TCPShutdown() call to avoid memory consumption.
A script must call one TCPShutdown() call for every successful TCPStartup() call.

 

Example()

Func Example()
    TCPStartup() ; Start the TCP service.

    ; Register OnAutoItExit to be called when the script is closed.
    OnAutoItExitRegister("OnAutoItExit")
EndFunc   ;==>Example

Func OnAutoItExit()
    TCPShutdown() ; Close the TCP service.
EndFunc   ;==>OnAutoItExit

Here is my problem:

When app exits, it has to call a TCPShutdown. BUT I never seen it doing a tcpshutdown when it app crashed or killed by taskmanager.

Does that mean taskmanager and a crash circumvents the OnAutoItExit?

Dan
 

[Jos]

11 minutes ago, Burgaud said:

BUT I never seen it doing a tcpshutdown when it app crashed or killed by taskmanager.

Which seems pretty obvious ...right, but why are you killing the task in stead of ending it nicely?

12 minutes ago, Burgaud said:

Does that mean taskmanager and a crash circumvents the OnAutoItExit?

Of course ... you are killing the process which means you simply stop it in whatever state it is in. 

Jos

[Melba23]

Burgaud,

As I understand it, OnAutoItExit only functions during a normal, graceful exit from a script - as shown by the expected @exitMethod messages shown in the Help file. If the script crashes or is killed externally then the code will not run as the normal script shutdown process will not occur.

M23

[Burgaud]

Ok... I understand...

Now for 2nd part of the problem:

TCPShutdown per every TCPStartup.

If script crashed or killed, how will that affect TCPShutdown?
Am I correct to assume that this wont matter because autoit.exe terminated and the memory is released?

Dan

[Nine]

24 minutes ago, Burgaud said:

Am I correct to assume that this wont matter because autoit.exe terminated and the memory is released?

Probably.  But you could test it yourself by checking memory before start, run your program, crash it and look memory after.  Do that a few times and come back to tell us if memory is released or not. 

[Jos]

49 minutes ago, Burgaud said:

f script crashed or killed, how will that affect TCPShutdown?
Am I correct to assume that this wont matter because autoit.exe terminated and the memory is released?

In general, any program that is killed, will not do any cleanup of memory and any open handles/files.
I am not sure what you mean by crash in this case,  but in case of a hard-crash the same counts. In case of a soft crash (read autoit3 error) the cleanup will be performed by AutoIt3 but there is still a good chance the TCP stuff isn't unless the TCPShutDown() is performed.

So one really should never Kill tasks, unless they aren't responsive, otherwise you script should always terminate in a normal fashion. 
So again the question: Why does it seems like you use the kill task as a regular thing, or did I misunderstand that? 

Jos

[Burgaud]

39 minutes ago, Jos said:

So again the question: Why does it seems like you use the kill task as a regular thing, or did I misunderstand that? 

Jos

Honestly, I do not know Killing it is that bad. Thanks for this good info.
Henceforth, will avoid it. The script does not have any GUI to "exit" it. So will add hotkey sequences to exit the script.

PS. By crash I mean something like script encountering syntax error, or array subscript mismatch... etc...

 

Dan

[Jos]

The script always had a gui in the background so you can always send a winclose to your script. 🙂

Jos