[Backgroundrb-devel] Get "some read error" on calls to worker

[hemant kumar]

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 12:34 -0500, Rob Nielsen wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hemant kumar [mailto:gethemant at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 12:14 PM
> To: Rob Nielsen
> Cc: backgroundrb-devel at rubyforge.org
> Subject: Re: [Backgroundrb-devel] Get "some read error" on calls to
> worker
> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> 
> [SNIP]
> 
> Ok so, create method is getting invoked when you invoke:
> 
> MiddleMan.new_worker(...)
> 
> right?
> 
> Now, next i see an "exit!" statement there, which basically asks the
> worker to quit. Now when a worker quits, master process gets an error
> when reading from that socket, so thats why you are getting "some read
> error" message. But as far as I can see, create method is getting called
> alright. Correct me, If i am wrong.
> 
> ----
> 
> Yes it gets called once. Subsequent calls fail for some reason. If I
> take out the job_key, then I can call it again.

When you can exit! on a worker..its dead, its gone. You can't access it
any more. You shouldn't call exit! on it, if you want to make further
calls to it.

> 
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